Win NT and USB devices??

Does anyone know if Win NT 4 supports USB devices, particularly zip drives and drawing tablets. If not, does anyone know of any workaround. I recently changed from win 98 to win nt workstation and it would be bad if now my USB devices didn't wo...




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#56678 - 09/18/00 07:58 PM Win NT and USB devices??
d_a_michaud Offline
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Registered: 09/18/00
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Does anyone know if Win NT 4 supports USB devices, particularly zip drives and drawing tablets. If not, does anyone know of any workaround. I recently changed from win 98 to win nt workstation and it would be bad if now my USB devices didn't work. Any advice is appreciated.

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#56679 - 09/18/00 08:37 PM Re: Win NT and USB devices??
DeadCats Offline
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Registered: 05/20/00
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My best advice? Go with Windows 2000, not NT 4.

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#56680 - 09/18/00 09:25 PM Re: Win NT and USB devices??
cryptix Offline
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Registered: 05/29/00
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NT 4 does not and will not support USB. Switch to Win2000 Pro instead.

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#56681 - 09/19/00 04:48 PM Re: Win NT and USB devices??
halen Offline
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Registered: 06/26/00
Posts: 30
The Iomega USB Zip drive does work under NT4, it basically installs a USB SCSI storage device driver, and it only works with the zip drive, but it does work.

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#56682 - 09/23/00 09:45 AM Re: Win NT and USB devices??
enjoy Offline
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Registered: 09/23/00
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