help with mp3

my friend has recently bougth an mp3 player
he is using win 98 and needs drivers for the mp3, but he doesn`t have them.there isn`t event name of the manufacturer!!!!, so i can`t find the drivers on net.i am using win xp, and i can install it, so i tried to copy windows drivers from my to his computer but that didn`t work(didn`t think so).i tried with win 98 cd, but that didn`t work either

this is under the device propertis, when pluged in on windows 98:
THIS DEVICE IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY BECOUSE THE WINDOWS CANNOT LOAD THE FILE(PCCARD.VXD) THAT LOADS THE DRIVERS FOR THE DEVICE(CODE 8)

so if someone knows how to solve this please help, becouse he bought an mp3 that he can`t use!

 

Is it a USB flash ROM device?
Have you tried uninstalling it in Windows system device manager, restarting the computer and plugging it into a different USB socket? And try to plug it directly into the computer rather than into a hub of some sorts.

 

OK i will try that. any other ideas?

 

It might not support 98.

When it's hooked up to XP, is it identified? If so, post back with the details.

Are there any numbers or info on it that you can Google?


Failing all that, you can try posting a pic and some may recognise it.

 

that`s the problem, there isn`t manufacturer!
i don`t know how that`s possible, but...

 

I never said there was, I asked specific questions that require specific answers.

 

ok, sorry
no there aren`t any numbers
but do you know, where i can download some drivers for any mp3(as you said, it might work)

 

Post a photo of it.

It might be that it uses a particular USB interface chipset which you can get a generic driver for - but unless either a) you fancy disassembling it or b) we can work out what it is - you can't know where to get that.

It's worth making sure that you have all the updates for Win 98 that there is. Some of them may include generic mass storage drivers that might work.