playing Zip 100 carts in a ZIP 250 USB

[myfathersson]

Sorry for posting on such an old topic but i just came across a load
of old backup ZIP 100 carts and need to get the data off them.

I found in a local market a USB Zip 250 device which I am trying to
use with Vista for the moment. It plays 250 meg carts properly but
wont play ANY 100 meg ones at all. It reads them, cycles etc etc and
then reports that there is no cart in the drive.

Is there some trick I should know about to do this please?

 

[Krypsis]

Sorry for posting on such an old topic but i just came across a load
of old backup ZIP 100 carts and need to get the data off them.

I found in a local market a USB Zip 250 device which I am trying to
use with Vista for the moment. It plays 250 meg carts properly but
wont play ANY 100 meg ones at all. It reads them, cycles etc etc and
then reports that there is no cart in the drive.

Is there some trick I should know about to do this please?

I have 750, 250 and 100 drives and disks. From what I have read, and
experimented with, you should be able to read a 100 in a 250 but you
will possibly not be able to format it. Given that yours appear to be
formatted with data on them, I suspect it may be an issue with Vista. Do
you have access to either a Mac with OSX or a PC with Windows XP? It
should operate correctly under those operating systems.

Krypsis

 

[myfathersson]

I have 750, 250 and 100 drives and disks. From what I have read, and
experimented with, you should be able to read a 100 in a 250 but you
will possibly not be able to format it. Given that yours appear to be
formatted with data on them, I suspect it may be an issue with Vista. Do
you have access to either a Mac with OSX or a PC with Windows XP? It
should operate correctly under those operating systems.

Krypsis

Sounds realistic

I will try it if there is no workaround

 

[mike]

Sorry for posting on such an old topic but i just came across a load
of old backup ZIP 100 carts and need to get the data off them.

I found in a local market a USB Zip 250 device which I am trying to
use with Vista for the moment. It plays 250 meg carts properly but
wont play ANY 100 meg ones at all. It reads them, cycles etc etc and
then reports that there is no cart in the drive.

Is there some trick I should know about to do this please?

I just hooked a zip250 usb drive to an xp system and had no trouble
reading 100mb disks. Not clear how vista could tell whether
the disks are 100 or 250?? If the driver works, it should work for both.

I infer that you wrote the 100mb disks and/or know their history?
I've seen people bulk erase zip disks rendering them doorstops.

 

[William Brown]

I have 750, 250 and 100 drives and disks. From what I have read, and
experimented with, you should be able to read a 100 in a 250 but you
will possibly not be able to format it. Given that yours appear to be
formatted with data on them, I suspect it may be an issue with Vista. Do
you have access to either a Mac with OSX or a PC with Windows XP? It
should operate correctly under those operating systems.

Krypsis

I find no problems, but some of my 100 Zip disk are not to reliable had
a few failures, you can format a 100 Zip but it takes much longer as it
has to format more tracks to equal the size of the 100 Zip tracks.


That it mentioned in the Docs.

 

[Arno]

Sorry for posting on such an old topic but i just came across a load
of old backup ZIP 100 carts and need to get the data off them.

I found in a local market a USB Zip 250 device which I am trying to
use with Vista for the moment. It plays 250 meg carts properly but
wont play ANY 100 meg ones at all. It reads them, cycles etc etc and
then reports that there is no cart in the drive.

Is there some trick I should know about to do this please?

Zip disks are notoriously unreliable and lose data. Maybe
your backup disks are just bad. The 250MB drive should read the
100MB cartridges just fine.

Arno

 

[myfathersson]

Zip disks are notoriously unreliable and lose data. Maybe
your backup disks are just bad. The 250MB drive should read the
100MB cartridges just fine.

Arno

That may well be the answer but it is just surprising that only the
100 mb ones are bad. They havent been bulk erased and in fact I can
still see the contents written in good old fountain pen on the outsides

 

[myfathersson]

I have 750, 250 and 100 drives and disks. From what I have read, and
experimented with, you should be able to read a 100 in a 250 but you
will possibly not be able to format it. Given that yours appear to be
formatted with data on them, I suspect it may be an issue with Vista. Do
you have access to either a Mac with OSX or a PC with Windows XP? It
should operate correctly under those operating systems.

Krypsis

Hi Krypsis

I know it SEEMS to make no sense as the driver should make no
difference to the size of the discs but you were right

The 100s all work fine in my McBook Pro running XP. (Now all I need is
the 1-step extraction software to restore all these 1998-2000 files)