MP4 running windows 98

[maryhope]

Good morning I have an mMP3- MP4 media player 1GB,(one of those phisically similar to the ipod ) that allow video, e-book etc. It has in the back just the FCC , no othre brand name. It runs with windows 98. So when I plug it on my computer ( which has windows XP) it is not recogneized , is there any way that I can reset the original set up or upgrade it to run with windows xp? Any suggestions?? I don't want to put it in the garbage

Thanks in advance

Maryhope

[markwolfe Veteran]

Ok, some clarification please, certainly the media player itself doesn't have Win98 installed on it. Do you mean that it only has drivers that work with Windows 98?

What model is it? And, yes, googling the FCC number may help identify it, so if that is all you have, can you post that please?

[maryhope]

Thank you for answer so soon. It works but it has the driver for windows 98 so now that I upgrade the windows 98 to xp in muy computer the media player is not recognized so I can not change songs or anything else. Theres in not brande name, it is a china component , and there is no number anywhere. It is arond 2 years old. In the back just said FC CE tested to cpmply with FCC stanars For home and office.

I appreciate any suggestion. Thanks

MaryHope

[PL_ Veteran]

That's really odd it's not recognized. It's not listed in MyComputer or anything?

[markwolfe Veteran]

Alternatives to test:

• Running Win98 in a virtual environment
  
• Trying to connect to this in Ubuntu (directly or with wine)
  

Connecting in Linux you might be able to probe the device for a chipset or brand/model. And, using that information, an XP solution may be found.

[maryhope]

Alternatives to test:

• Running Win98 in a virtual environment
  
• Trying to connect to this in Ubuntu (directly or with wine)
  

Connecting in Linux you might be able to probe the device for a chipset or brand/model. And, using that information, an XP solution may be found.

so shoul I download UNuntu on my computer and try it?

[markwolfe Veteran]

You can run Ubuntu without installing it (what is commonly called running as a "LiveCD" ), so it would be safe and not make any changes to your computer. If your computer is old and doesn't have a lot of RAM, you can try to identify it under Ubuntu on another more powerful machine.

Also, the virtual Win98 install thing won't work very fast on lower end machines - but it might be acceptable enough to sync your media player.

[maryhope]

thanks I will try and I will let you know.