Iomega USB drive - garbage?

[larry moe 'n curly]

I bought an Iomega 80GB USB 2.0 hard drive and have been experiencing
problems. I'm sure they're due to the driver software and not the
hardware because my friend has experienced the exact same problems,
including one that happens even without any Iomega hardware installed.


1. When the utility to close the drive is run so that it can be safely
unplugged, Windows 98SE brings up a blue screen with a fatal exception
0D or 0E error. When it's answered with a "Y"es to resume, Windows
usually recovers OK, but after this is done several times, Windows
becomes sluggish with the screen updates or even locks completely.

2. When the driver software is uninstalled and Win98SE is rebooted, all
the device drivers are lost, and the Device Manager becomes empty
except for the "Computer" entry.

Both of us also bought Western Digital USB 2.0 hard drives (and at last
his Iomega even contains a WD IDE HD), and they work perfectly.

BTW, these IOmega drives seem to run hotter than others because of a
metal cover over the internal IDE HD's circuit board. The cover is
just for preventing radio interference, and drilling a bunch of 1/8"
holes in it could help keep the drive cooler/data intact.

 

[Bob Kruse]

I've had such problems with Iomega products in the past that I could
not recommend them at all. Driver problems and tech support dead
ends. I finally threw my Iomega stuff in the trash and will never go
back.

Bob Kruse

 

[Al Smith]

I've had such problems with Iomega products in the past that I could

not recommend them at all. Driver problems and tech support dead
ends. I finally threw my Iomega stuff in the trash and will never go
back.

Bob Kruse

I used to get conflicts with the Iomega software that came with my
ZIP drive, until I finally stopped installing it. The ZIP runs in
Windows XP without having to add any drivers. Because of the
software conflicts I would never buy other Iomega products.

 

[johns]

ends. I finally threw my Iomega stuff in the trash and will never go

Ditto. Iomega is finally reaping what they have sewn
for so long. I won't touch their stuff again.

johns

 

[Shelly F]

I finally threw my Iomega stuff in the trash and will never go

Ditto. Iomega is finally reaping what they have sewn
for so long. I won't touch their stuff again.

Ditto. It all went down hill with the 100mb zip drives that started to
click-click-click, and we all lost our 'backup' and 'archived' data.
As far as I am concerned, they are in the same heap as Symantec.

 

[Christopher P. Winter]

I bought an Iomega 80GB USB 2.0 hard drive and have been experiencing
problems. I'm sure they're due to the driver software and not the
hardware because my friend has experienced the exact same problems,
including one that happens even without any Iomega hardware installed.


1. When the utility to close the drive is run so that it can be safely
unplugged, Windows 98SE brings up a blue screen with a fatal exception
0D or 0E error. When it's answered with a "Y"es to resume, Windows
usually recovers OK, but after this is done several times, Windows
becomes sluggish with the screen updates or even locks completely.

2. When the driver software is uninstalled and Win98SE is rebooted, all
the device drivers are lost, and the Device Manager becomes empty
except for the "Computer" entry.

Both of us also bought Western Digital USB 2.0 hard drives (and at last
his Iomega even contains a WD IDE HD), and they work perfectly.

BTW, these IOmega drives seem to run hotter than others because of a
metal cover over the internal IDE HD's circuit board. The cover is
just for preventing radio interference, and drilling a bunch of 1/8"
holes in it could help keep the drive cooler/data intact.

I don't know this specific Iomega hardware, but I have a suggestion: try
posting over at alt.iomega.zip.jazz. There's someone called DeepOne who seems
to have good answers to such questions there.

Chris

 

[larry moe 'n curly]

I don't know this specific Iomega hardware, but I have a
suggestion: try posting over at alt.iomega.zip.jazz. There's
someone called DeepOne who seems to have good answers to such
questions there.

Thanks, I'll try that. BTW I just learned that the IOmega software
also uninstalled my printer driver.

 

[larry moe 'n curly]

I don't know this specific Iomega hardware, but I have a
suggestion: try posting over at alt.iomega.zip.jazz. There's
someone called DeepOne who seems to have good answers to such
questions there.

Thanks, I'll try that. BTW I just learned that the IOmega software
also uninstalled my printer driver.

 

[J. Yazel]

Thanks, I'll try that. BTW I just learned that the IOmega software
also uninstalled my printer driver.

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[none]

I used to get conflicts with the Iomega software that came with my
ZIP drive, until I finally stopped installing it. The ZIP runs in
Windows XP without having to add any drivers. Because of the
software conflicts I would never buy other Iomega products.

Not to mention their absolute lack of customer support.