I/O Device Error - USB Device

[Jerry Stern]

When plugging my USB Flash Drive into USB port I get the
following error "I/O Device Error". I am unable to access
my SanDisk Cruzer Mini drive, and tech support says I
should be looking on Microsoft's site. I've found nothing
so far that addresses this problem. The flash drive works
okay on my other computer. The computer I am having
problems on is an older machine with only 64MB RAM and an
AMD K5-166 processor, but it used to work on it before.
Any suggestions?

 

[Richie]

Your older PC may not support the flash drive, therefore
you may need to load device drivers for it, check the
device web site for that information

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
it's due to compatibility problem.USB Flash drive is not supported by
the old old machine.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Yves Leclerc]

What version of Windows are you running on this K5 based PC? Definitely not
Windows XP.

USB Flash Drive needs a driver and SanDisk only provides a driver for
Windows 96SE. Windows ME and XP are supposed to be included in the OS.