But “sees” is doing heavy lifting. Here’s the cruel irony: to install the USB flash drive driver on Windows 98, you usually need… another working flash drive (or CD-ROM). The driver comes as an .EXE file, often distributed on ZIP disks or burned CDs. Once installed, the real fun begins.
Today, you can buy a pre-built “Windows 98 USB driver” floppy disk on eBay for $15. It’s a weird little artifact: a solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist, kept alive by people who refuse to let the past be inaccessible. windows 98 flash drive driver
So yes, Windows 98 can run a flash drive. Just don’t expect it to smile while doing it. : Works, slowly, unreliably, and beautifully. Like much of Windows 98 itself. But “sees” is doing heavy lifting