Using ZIP Drive for emergency disk

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Glenn

Can anyone tell me how to use an Iomega Zip Drive(F:) as
drive "A" to make an emergency disk under Win2000 Pro.

Thanx

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You'll first ahve to confirm that your MB's bios will let you boot from the
zip drive.
 
Yeah if it is connected via an LTP port I do not think it is possible at all.
 
George said:
Yeah if it is connected via an LTP port I do not think it is possible at all.
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I used to use a lot of these drives.

Parallel port ones can never be booted from directly.

Most BIOS won't let you boot from the IDE drives.

The odds are a lot better if you have a SCSI drive.

I have never tried to boot from one of the USB ones - I
had by and large given up on Zip drives by that time, as
had pretty much every IT shop I worked for.
 
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