Question

[Dan Rather]

Hello,

My question is about ZIP 250 meg disks. I know there is a utility for
making a 1.44 meg floppy disk into a 1.72 meg floppy. Is there a
program that would enable one to squeeze a little more out of a 250
meg ZIP disk when formatting it? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[DC]

Hello,

My question is about ZIP 250 meg disks. I know there is a utility for
making a 1.44 meg floppy disk into a 1.72 meg floppy. Is there a
program that would enable one to squeeze a little more out of a 250
meg ZIP disk when formatting it? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

You might get better responses if you bother with a more descriptive
subject line. IME, the more effort put into the post, the better the
results, over all.

http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/whatsubj.html

HTH }:O)

 

[Chris Lee]

Hello,

My question is about ZIP 250 meg disks. I know there is a utility
for
making a 1.44 meg floppy disk into a 1.72 meg floppy. Is there a
program that would enable one to squeeze a little more out of a 250
meg ZIP disk when formatting it? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Not that I know of and nor would it be a good idea, since you
won't be able to read the contents of the zip 250 meg disk
on another zip 250 drive.

You might try microsoft's file/disk compression software but it might
not be compatable with Zip drives

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

| Hello,
|
| My question is about ZIP 250 meg disks. I know there is a
utility for
| making a 1.44 meg floppy disk into a 1.72 meg floppy. Is there
a
| program that would enable one to squeeze a little more out of a
250
| meg ZIP disk when formatting it? Any help would be appreciated.
|

The best way that I know of to get more data onto a Zip disk is
to abandon the Zip technology altogether and burn CDRWs instead.
CDs are non-proprietary, really cheap (especially when compared
with Zip disks). Further, I understand that the Zip owner gives
horrible support, whereas I can say from experience that the
support that I've received from Plextor (the manufacturer of the
Plextor family of CD burners) has been outstanding: truly
supportive. When these people know something, they are very
giving of themselves: a pleasure.

I have seen software that would squeeze more bytes onto a floppy,
but why bother when the optical disk is so inexpensive and
reliable. I have only one complaint about CDRWs, and that is that
it is almost impossible to unerase a file. They seem to run in a
"pseudo-DOS" that's effective for every aspect of conventional
storage except this one. Make sense?

Richard

 

[Daniel Mandic]

Hello!


The only Solution that I knew....

Use filesystems with a small clustersize (512 bytes) otherwise if you
use a strong archiver like WinRAR you could make some archives on the
zip. Then its better to use FAT16, because you have a little more free
Megs with FAT16 than NTFS! But NTFS have the possibility to format
smaller clustersize (512bytes - 64Kbytes) if you have many small
files on the ZIP then its MAYBE better.


Best Regards

Daniel Mandic