Zip drive doesn't work after upgrade from Windows98

[cara]

Hi, Is there anyone can help me out here? I have been
tried to figure this out for many days. My zip drive
doesn't work after I upgrade the operating system from
Windows98. How can I fix this problem? Please help me
out. I am dying here.
cara

 

[Rob Schneider]

Hi, Is there anyone can help me out here? I have been
tried to figure this out for many days. My zip drive
doesn't work after I upgrade the operating system from
Windows98. How can I fix this problem? Please help me
out. I am dying here.
cara

Check with the vendor's web site for xp compatible drivers for the device.

 

[Michael Stevens]

Hi, Is there anyone can help me out here? I have been
tried to figure this out for many days. My zip drive
doesn't work after I upgrade the operating system from
Windows98. How can I fix this problem? Please help me
out. I am dying here.
cara

What have you tried so far?
Have you downloaded and installed the latest software from Iomega.
Checked the Iomega support web site?
http://www.iomega.com/support/def_zip.html
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[Bob Harris]

XP (original, even before SP-1) could handle an internal ZIP drive with its
default drivers. If internal, and it worked before the upgrade, it should
still work, without anything special. That siad, since it does not work,
try using the XP device manager to uninstall the ZIP drive. Then
immediately use the device manager to detect new hardware. The ZIP should
be recognized and default drivers loaded. If this does not help, verify
that the ZIP can be seen in the BIOS, or perhaps by a floppy boot disk. If
not, check the wiring.

If a USB ZIP, it shoudl have been unplugged during the upgrade to XP. If
not, try powering off, unplugging, powering on, plug it in. In theory, XP
will see a new USB device and load default drivers.

 

[Guest]

I have seen some cases like this, if you have an IDE ZIP drive. A possibility
is that you need to remove a jumper on the ZIP drive itself. It is often
marked "drive A" or something like that (not the jumper that sets
Master/Slave, but another one near it). It seems that Win98 didn't really
care whether this jumper was there or not, but with some motherboard BIOSes,
and WinNT/2k/XP, the jumper makes it not recognize your disks. Usually the
drive appears, and is assigned a letter, but it always says that your disks
are not formatted.
Another possibility: if your motherboard BIOS is set to autodetect the
drives, and it sees the ZIP drive, try setting it to "NONE" instead of "AUTO".
WinXP will usually still find the drive, and set it up correctly.
It appears that sometimes the BIOS tries to configure the drive in some way
that is not compatible with XP (perhaps to make it a bootable device?)

After you make these changes, you _may_ need to uninstall the drivers in
Windows so that it reinstalls them, before it will recognize the change.

|Hi, Is there anyone can help me out here? I have been
|tried to figure this out for many days. My zip drive
|doesn't work after I upgrade the operating system from
|Windows98. How can I fix this problem? Please help me
|out. I am dying here.
|cara