Vent: spent 4 hours trying to get a Windows 98 driver onto a CF card using only a Vista laptop last Saturday

Iris Stone · 2026-09-16T05:25:03.55743+00:00

I picked up a $15 CF card reader at a Goodwill in Sacramento to move a driver file onto my old ThinkPad 600E, thinking it would take maybe 10 minutes. Turns out Vista refused to format the card to FAT16, so I ended up burning a CD-R, booting a Puppy Linux live disc I found in a binder, and copying it over the slow way. Does anyone keep a separate XP machine around just for this kind of thing, or am I the only one still fighting with this?

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