DIR Back to index page Just unpack, run and use! __________________________________________________________ Dos/Windows 3x - 7 drivers __________________________________________________________ Useful drivers for solving pressing problems in Legacy systems. [ Table of contents ]: 1. USB and HDD drivers 2. File systems drives 3. Hardware drivers 4. Hardware Compatibility drivers 5. Other drivers .......................................................... USB and HDD drivers .......................................................... Here are the consequences of my experiments with old systems. Here are many useful things that I acquired through my experience with legacy industrial systems. DOS USB drivers for Windows 95 [974 kb] Flash memory card support driver for Windows 95, tried and tested. Attention! Install the USB controller driver first, and then this flash card driver. .......................................................... DOS USB Retail for WinNT 4.0 [775 kb] Full support usb keyboards, mice and printers for NT 4.0 .......................................................... DOS i4usb 2.11.15.0 4.06 for WinNT 4.0 [5 067 kb] Inside Out Networks (now Digi International) USB 1.x/2.0 Stack/drivers for docks, mice, keyboards, usb printers (via virtual LPT port emulation), and usb storage devices - flash/hdd media. .......................................................... DOS Virtual USB Serial Port 4.0 Fixed for WinXP [1 567 kb] Emulation of the COM port via a USB socket. .......................................................... DOS Rlusb9x usb mass storage driver for windows 95+ [44 kb] This usb mass storage driver is designed to support hard drives, floppy Drives, optical drives, keys and other mass storage devices that use the usb Interface. In particular, this driver was designed to work with windows 95. Although it can be used with later windows such as windows 98. .......................................................... DOS USB Mass Storage Driver for Windows 98 SE [10 kb] Generic, Lexar based, USB Mass Storage Driver for Win98SE. Windows 98 RTM has a flaw causing occasional corruption of IDE as well as USB Drives, when transferring data, so use of USB Drives in Windows 98 RTM is not recommended. Unzip files and point the Hardware Installer to them when prompted for a driver during installation. .......................................................... DOS USB drivers for Windows 98 [601 kb] Universal flash card support driver for Windows 98 SE English version. Just install it and reboot after. .......................................................... DOS USB CD-ROM DOS drivers [183 kb] .......................................................... DOS Cypress DOS USB Storage Driver v 4.4 [255 kb] .......................................................... DOS Ninja Firewire/USB2.0/SCSI Driver Set [39 kb] .......................................................... DOS USB CD and flash drive drivers for DOS Di1000dd [25 kb] .......................................................... DOS DOSUSB for USB 2.0 driver by Georg Potthast [624 kb] .......................................................... DOS DOSUSB for USB 3.0 driver beta by Georg Potthast [619 kb] DOSUSB lets DOS communicate with all sorts of USB devices. It is an XHCI, EHCI, UHCI and OHCI controller driver for DOS so application programs and device drivers can easily access USB devices. .......................................................... DOS Dos USB driver by Bret E Johnson [542 kb] There are several programs here that will allow you to use USB keyboards, mice, joysticks, printers, and disk drives in DOS. .......................................................... DOS Dos USB 3.0 boot CD ISO by Georg Potthast [2 253 kb] There is also a special version available now which supports USB 3.0 with xHCI controllers. USB 3.0 ports support all USB speeds and therefore all kinds of devices. The current DOSUSB 3.0 version has been tested and works with USB 3.0 and 2.0 hard disks and flash disks. Other devices are still being tested and adapted. .......................................................... DOS UltraDMA drivers for DOS 2.25 [84 kb] .......................................................... DOS Universal ATA driver for Windows 3.51-XP [419 kb] TEXT Read me file for driver [2 kb] .......................................................... DOS Support VIA Sata Controller for Win95 [35 kb] Sata controller support for Win95. .......................................................... DOS UniATA console management utility for Win32 [28 kb] The utility is inteneded for management and enumeration of ATA controllers and connected devices. You can find list of command line switches below. If no UniATA driver is installed, the utility is capable of listing IDE, ATAPI and SCSI devices only. .......................................................... Universal Intel AHCI drivers mods signed by Fernando. Modded Intel AHCI and RAID Drivers (digitally signed). Intel AHCI/RAID system and an Intel SATA AHCI/RAID Controller, which is not supported by any original Intel AHCI/RAID driver or natively not supported by the requested newer/better Intel AHCI or RAID driver. Theses MSM drivers do support all OSes from W2k+ and all known Intel SATA AHCI and RAID Controllers from ICH6R/M and ESB2 up. They were modded on 01/16/2020 and freshly digitally signed on 08/05/2023: DOS Universal 32bit Intel MSM AHCI driver 8.9.8.1005 [206 kb] DOS Universal 64bit Intel MSM AHCI driver 8.9.8.1005 [237 kb] The Universal 32/64bit AHCI/RAID Drivers for all 32/64bit Windows OS'es from W2k/XP+! DOS Driver 32bit Intel RST AHCI+RAID 11.2.0.1006 [290 kb] DOS Driver 64bit Intel RST AHCI+RAID 11.2.0.1006 [328 kb] The Universal 32/64bit Intel RST(e) AHCI driver which supports Win7. Supported are all Windows OS'es from Win7 up and all Intel SB/Chipset systems from ESB2/ICH7 up. DOS Driver 32bit Intel RST AHCI 15.9.8.1050 [457 kb] DOS Driver 32bit Intel RST RAID 15.9.8.1050 [456 kb] DOS Driver 64bit Intel RST AHCI 15.9.8.1050 [523 kb] DOS Driver 64bit Intel RST AHCI 15.9.8.1050 [523 kb] Mod signed 1 DOS Driver 64bit Intel RST RAID 15.9.8.1050 [1 763 kb] .......................................................... File systems drives .......................................................... DOS Alternate cdfs.vxd for Win9x [39 kb] It show Audio CD's as WAV files in the file system. .......................................................... DOS Ext2Fsd 1.0.2.11 for Win2k/WinXp [2 477 kb] This is an ext2 Linux file system driver. .......................................................... DOS Ext2IFS 1.11 for Win32 [1 444 kb] Read, write Linux ext2 volumes. .......................................................... DOS Ext2viewer 0.6b for Win32 [133 kb] It allows to view ext2 Linux file system partitions on hdd and fdd, copy files and directories from ext2 to FAT and NTFS, and view separated files. .......................................................... DOS LTools 5.7 for Win32 [1 021 kb] Program to read LINUX ext2 filesystems on PCs from within DOS/Windows or from UNIX operating systems. .......................................................... DOS Mac Drive 2000 4.04 Fixed for Win32 [7 724 kb] This program allows you to connect disks from old MAC systems to Windows systems. .......................................................... DOS UFS Explorer 3.9.0.0 Fixed for Win2k/WinXP [1 669 kb] A program for users who work with Windows and Linux or BSD on the same computer. .......................................................... DOS Kernel32 2gb patch for Windows 9x [237 kb] The KERNEL32 2GiB Bug Fix corrects the handling of File Seek Commands (both lseek and SetFilePointer) so that Files up to 4GiB are correctly handled. .......................................................... FFS File System Driver for Win2k-XP. Berkeley Fast File System (FFS,UFS) driver used in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. DOS Ffsdrv driver 0.5.1 for Win2k [121 kb] DOS Ffsdrv driver 0.5.1 for Win2k3 [121 kb] DOS Ffsdrv driver 0.5.1 for WinXP [121 kb] .......................................................... DOS FAT32 drivers for MsDos 6.22 [27 kb] The driver works similarly to the MSCDEX utility. Your DOS must be set to FAT16. Only after this the drivers will see the FAT32 partitions. Disk Utilities will also work with these disks after installing the driver. The disadvantage is the high consumption of base memory. If you use multiple FAT32 partitions. For parameters see drfat32 /? To reduce base memory consumption, reduce the number of buffers. .......................................................... DOS FAT32 drivers for Windows NT [736 kb] FAT32 file system support driver for Windows NT 4.0 Install and reboot. .......................................................... DOS NTFS driver for Windows 98 [754 kb] Patch for NTFS support for Windows 98 SE with reading and writing to the partition. .......................................................... DOS Capain Nemo 3.31 for Win32 [341 kb] The Multi Platform File Manager for copying files from Novell, NTFS and Linux Drives to FAT and Ntfs Drives. .......................................................... DOS Paragon NTFS driver for Dos [194 kb] The best NTFS driver for DOS according my opinition. Allows both reading and writing to the partition. To work drviver just run the mount.bat file .......................................................... DOS NTFS driver for Dos read only mode [38 kb] This small driver only support to read information from NTFS partitions in a DOS environment .......................................................... DOS Non-dos partition corruption patch [6 kb] The NON-DOS Partition Corruption Patch corrects a bug in IO.SYS 7 or uncompressed IO.SYS 8. This bug causes non-active Primary Partitions to be assigned an incorrect start sector when the last Logical Partition processed is not recognized by DOS. .......................................................... DOS Dos long file names driver [306 kb] DOSLFN is a Real mode driver for Long File Names missed in DOS. .......................................................... Hardware drivers .......................................................... DOS AHCI CD/DVD driver 1.0/1.1 for DOS [16 kb] Driver provides support for CD, DVD or Blu-Ray in DOS when using active AHCI Disk Drive Controllers. .......................................................... DOS DosCDroast drivers pack by Horvath Istvan [5 348 kb] This is a freeware collection of programs to use IDE/ATAPI, SCSI, PPM, USB, IEEE1394, etc. cd-writers under DOS systems (or WIN9X using real MS-DOS mode). .......................................................... DOS Covox pack 1.05 for Dos [33 kb] Covox/Speaker three-voice driver for Sierra family VGA games, as well as the latest corrected version of Covox driver for EGA Sierra games family. .......................................................... DOS Covox Speech Thing Driver for Windows 3x [6 kb] .......................................................... DOS hCovox driver for some old Dos games [8 byte] .......................................................... DOS Sound Source Driver for Windows 3x [6 kb] Covox driver for Windows 3x. .......................................................... DOS Covox drivers for Windows 3x [59 kb] The drivers are provided with a convenient control interface, as well as MIDI drivers. .......................................................... DOS Atapi DVD-ROM driver for DOS/Win16 [81 kb] DVD-ROM drive driver for Dos and Win16 from Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics. .......................................................... DOS Nec IDE CD-Rom Dos Driver [22 kb] IDE CD-Rom driver that allows to connect a CD-ROM even to a computer with a 286 processor for Dos. .......................................................... DOS Cdromx 4.0 for WinNT [41 kb] Fix the Video-CD reading bugs. It should also work with CD/DVD-ROM/R/RW discs (CD-R/RW; DVD code is taken from the Microsoft driver for Windows 2000) .......................................................... DOS CD-Rom Dos Drivers with Panasonic interface [76 kb] Dos CD-Rom drivers for non ide drivers with Panasonic, Mitsumi, Sony, Teac interface. .......................................................... DOS IDE CD-Rom Dos Drivers [85 kb] Two universal CD-ROM drivers for DOS: mtmcdai.sys and gscdrom.sys. .......................................................... DOS Hot CD-Rom Driver Install [34 kb] IDE CD-ROM DOS driver for hot connent, i.e. without rebooting! .......................................................... DOS SB detect driver [19 kb] A utility for Sound Cards that shows the configuration of your sound hardware in DOS. .......................................................... DOS Scroll Mouse Driver for Win95 [814 kb] PS/2 and COM port mouse driver with wheel support. Just run setup.exe or win31/setup.exe for COM mouse. From Memorex Company. .......................................................... DOS Windows 3.1 Pc Speaker Driver [8 kb] PC Speaker driver for sound playback in Windows 3.1 .......................................................... DOS Uwe Sieber Drivers for Dos [24 kb] XMGR - XMS Memory Manager, XHDD - HDD caching driver XDVD2 - Optical drive caching driver, RDISK - 2-Gigabyte RAM Disk Driver. .......................................................... DOS SerialXp 3-0-2-2507 for Win2k-WinXP [319 kb] SerialXP.sys is a universal high-performance Win2k/XP driver for serial asynchronous ports and multiport boards (adapters), including PCI-64, PCI-32, and ISA buses. Compared to the standard serial.sys driver, SerialXP requires less processor time to handle any adapters. .......................................................... DOS Unibrain ubCore 3.30 Driver for Win32 [7 998 kb] It is a set of low-level drivers for FireWire IEEE1394, with a top-down layered structure that provides the physical interface to various 1394 devices and includes the advantageous features with full 1394b support at 800Mbps. .......................................................... DOS Universl Video Driver VBEMP x86 for Win32 [124 kb] This driver is intended for using in case when your have some new or unknown video card(s) and you don't have drivers for it. It's better to contact manufacturer of your video card or search THE WEB for the drivers. ONLY if you finally cannot find driver for video card recommend you to use (vbemp.sys). My driver does not provide any kind of 3D hardware acceleration (DirectX & OpenGL). For this purpose third-party libraries can be used. .......................................................... DOS Universal VBE Video Display Driver for Win9x [2 931 kb] Universal VBE Video Display Driver for Windows 9x. Here 2014.02.14, 2014.01.31, 2010.06.01, 2008.10.21, 2008.03.23 versions of this drivers. This drivers allow to replace standard Windows 640x480 16 colords screen driver with a universal driver for high screen resolution and color depth! TEXT About drivers [2 kb] .......................................................... DOS Universal Personal Display Settings for Win32 [15 kb] AFAIK, display settings in MS Windows are global. It means that if user John Smith likes 320x200-16colors and sets this mode, all other users who log in later would be surprised. The Ntsavevmod driver helps to remove this limitation. .......................................................... Advisable to copy all universal drivers to the installation folder before installing Windows 3x, so that can select the required monitor driver during installation. DOS Universal CGA Display Driver for Windows 3x [146 kb] DOS Universal Hercules Display Driver for Windows 3x [140 kb] DOS Universal EGA Display Driver for Windows 3x [236 kb] DOS Universal SVGA Display Driver for Windows 3x [372 kb] This driver supports screen resolution 800x600 and 256 colors. .......................................................... DOS Sierra Ega games Dos Screen Driver [10 kb] The driver allows to run popular Dos games Sierra Family with EGA monitor. .......................................................... DOS VESA Super VGA BIOS Dos Extensions [80 kb] .......................................................... DOS VGA WIZARD Series Utility 4.0 [128 kb] Windows 3x Standard Screen Drivers up to 1024x768. It allows to change the screen resolution in Windows 3x. .......................................................... DOS BlueSoleil BlueTooth Drivers Windows 98 [6 202 kb] Version 05.04.05.20050408 for Windows 98. Bluetooth driver for Windows 98 with cure. Allows you to connect Blue Tooth to your Windows 98. The dialing function does not work among the services. Therefore, to connect a mobile phone for a call, assign a virtual modem connection to a virtual comport connected via BlueTooth to access the Internet. .......................................................... Hardware Compatibility drivers .......................................................... DOS Dell Phoenix APM Utility 1.3.1.4 for WinNT 4.0 [1 268 kb] Full Power Management Support Driver. Driver for enabling power management support for NT4. Software power off, sleep mode, standby mode, resume. .......................................................... DOS Non-standard FDD format driver for WinNT-XP [199 kb] Driver for floppy disks formatted to 1,76mb or 800kb the non-standard format that was used in the DOS era. .......................................................... DOS Windows 95 OSR2 High-Speed CPU Support 3.0 [2 495 kb] Windows 95 OSR2 has two specific errors when dealing with processors with speeds higher than 350 MHz. With a little patience however, both of these errors are fixable. .......................................................... DOS Amd K6 update support for Windows 95 OSR2 [size kb] AMD processor with 350+ MHz for Windows 95 OSR2 support. .......................................................... DOS NDIS Protection Error FIX for Windows 9x [171 kb] When you are installing Windows 95 or Windows 98 on a computer that has a CPU that runs at 2.2 (GHz) or faster, you may receive the following error message - While initializing device NDIS: Windows protection error. This update resolves this issue. .......................................................... DOS High capacity hdd driver 5.3 for Windows 9x [45 kb] The High Capacity Disk Patch Program patches Windows 98/98SE/ME to provide direct support for Hard Drives larger than 137GB without requiring a controller card or the Intel Application Accelerator which can only be used with some Intel Chipset Motherboards. The Patch installs support for the 48-Bit LBA addressing mode required for Hard Drives larger than 137GB. .......................................................... DOS Windows 95/98/SE/ME ram limitation driver patch [31 kb] The Windows 95/98/SE/ME RAM Limitatiom Patch Program patches Windows 95, 98, 98SE or ME to support Computers with more than 512MB of RAM. Unmodified Windows 95 98, 98SE or ME can malfunction or crash when more than 512MB of RAM is present. .......................................................... DOS Windows XP 128 gb ram PAE update [4 144 kb] With this manual update patch, Windows XP will support up to 128 gigabytes RAM. .......................................................... DOS Windows XP-7 Fix128 0.48 AIO PAE-Enabler patch [4 394 kb] If your hardware supports PAE this patch enables support for memory biggest than 4 gigabytes in Windows XP-7. The maximum supported RAM capacity is 128 gigabytes. .......................................................... DOS StaForce PAE Enabler for Win7/2008 serv [2 256 kb] I've been looking for a long time, and I've finally found it! If you can't use a 64-bit Win7 or Win2008 server for some reason, but you have more than 4 GB of ram memory. This Russian patch will solve the problem. I tested it on Win2008, and it worked perfectly! Don't run it if you don't want to enable PAE! .......................................................... DOS Windows 4gb executable patch 1.0.0.1 [22 kb] This very little tool patches x86 executables in order to let them have 4GB (instead of only 2) of virtual memory on x64 platforms. .......................................................... DOS CD/DVD drive size patch for Windows 98 [14 kb] The CD/DVD Drive Size Patch Program patches Win9x or ME to correctly report the size of the Disk when it is larger than 2GB. .......................................................... DOS UDF filesystem for Windows 95/95c [53 kb] The Windows 95/95C UDF Filesystem allows Windows 95 to read UDF formatted data from CD/DVD Disks. UDF Format extends the allowed File Names and Paths over older Formats and is required on DVD Video Disks. .......................................................... DOS UDF DVD support driver for Windows 98SE [399 kb] Multisession DVD reading support driver for Windows 98SE. .......................................................... Other drivers .......................................................... DOS Driver Magician Lite 3.57 for Win32 [1 603 kb] A program for quickly and easily creating backups of drivers for their subsequent restoration if needed. .......................................................... DOS FinePrint 6.12 Fixed for Win32 [20 059 kb] FinePrint + PDF Factory is a multifunctional printer driver that significantly expands the capabilities of any printer when printing documents. .......................................................... DOS Joy Driver 1.0.0.7 for Win32 [9 kb] Just run this driver and your joystick will control mouse. .......................................................... DOS nGlide 2.10 3dfx wrapper for Win32 [3 078 kb] 3dfx emulation driver for games with Glide support. Just copy the dll libraries from the archive to the game folder, for example, Test Drive 4 and enjoy the 3dfx version. Requires Direct 9.0 or higher installed. TEXT List of games for 3dfx This is a list of all games that I know of that support 3dfx, which I compiled specifically for these drivers. .......................................................... DOS INT 28 idle implementation for NT by DeathSoft [17 kb] This driver allows to directly use INT28 in DOS software for Windows NT systems. .......................................................... DOS Printer Changer 2.0 for Win9x [102 kb] This program places an icon in the system tray and allows to change printer settings. When you left click on the icon, a list of available printers opens, from which you can select a new default printer. If the selected printer is already the current default, you can click on it again or click on the empty space at the bottom of the pop-up menu. The program reads the list of printers from the win.ini file. .......................................................... DOS SlyControl 2.7.12 + all plugins for Win32 [4 599 kb] DOS SlyControl HTML HELP [1 057 kb] SlyControl lets you remotely control your computer using infrared remote control console from a TV cards package, or through any other devices, for example multimedia keyboard, joystick. SlyControl allow to run and remotely control any Windows applications, like a CDPlayer, WinAmp, TV, Radio & DVD players. You can also remotely run screen saver, log off, reboot or shutdown system by the timer or on other event. .......................................................... DOS Unknown Device Identifier 6.0 for Win32 [768 kb] Unknown Devices Identifier enables you to identify the yellow question mark labeled Unknown Devices in Device Manager. And reports you a detailed summary for the manufacturer name, OEM name, device type, device model and even the exact name of the unknown devices. .......................................................... DOS WFil2PRN for Win32 [578 kb] Program designed to copy files directly to a Windows printer - bypassing the Windows printer driver. __________________________________________________________ DIR Back to index page __________________________________________________________