[bac0926]

I am currently running* Windows XP. But I wanted to retrieve some files from my old Win98SE drive(I did a clean install of XP rather than an upgrade). My problem is that the last time I used the 98 drive I had a ENVISON CRT monitor. Now I have a Acer P191W LCD monitor. When I started up 98 it went into "plug and play" for the new monitor but could not find drivers for it.
1) It turns out the CD-ROM that came with the monitor is damaged beyond use
2) I went to the ACER website but the only drivers they have for the monitor are for VISTA
Any suggestions?

 

[Geekgirl]

Suggestion is to remove the drive from the old machine and put in current machine and browse thru the files and copy them over .

 

[blah789]

Did you try running the driver anyway? Sometimes manufacturers only put the version of windows they will support, when a driver they provide actually works for multiple versions of windows.

 

[blah789]

Actually I retract that.
I took a look at the inf and it won't work because of the lines
[Manufacturer]
%Acer%=Acer,NTx86,NTAMD64
which restrict installation to NT-class OSes (Windows 2000, XP, Vista etc...)

(found that what those lines meant while researching for another thread)