Zip drive info 98 to XP.

[Lyle Pfeifer]

I am trying to help a friend set up his new computer.
Its running XP home but his old Pet 2 ran 98se. It had a
zip drive and all 15 years of Quicken was backed up on
this computer's zip. He had not been running any virus
protection and something slowed the old 98 to a crawl. I
got it going, still somewhat slow and set the two CPU's
side by side to hook his zip to the XP and tried to
transfer the files to his XP. XP keeps saying the file
format is unreadable? We used an older zip disk and got
it to transfer, but left out a bunch of info. Could be a
bad zip disk? Is there any way to transfer this file? I
know we can use a cable and computer to computer, but are
worried about the virus. He is running protection on the
new computer. Any help would be great. Lyle

 

[Guest]

Make sure you have the most recent Zip drivers/software for XP. Theres a compatibility issue with the 98 software

http://www.iomega.com/software/index.htm

 

[t.cruise]

If it was backed up to the ZIP disk using the ZIP drive software utilities
One Step or The Works, although Iomega said those utilities are Windows XP
compatible, I was never able to restore files backed up using those
Iomega/ZIP utilities to a Windows XP system. I only got error messages. I
had to manually copy the files to the ZIP disk, and then manually copy them
to a folder on the Windows XP system. But, if the files were manually
copied to the ZIP disk, they might be infected from the virus you mentioned,
or corrupt, or the ZIP disk might be bad (common problem especially if it's
a ZIP 100 disk). Try scanning the ZIP disk with an antivirus program. Try
scanning the original hard drive with an antivirus program. If Quicken
still functions on the old system, after scanning the hard drive for
viruses, open Quicken and use the File menu Backup command, then give the
path to the ZIP drive, and use a DIFFERENT ZIP disk. If Quicken backs up
the data files to that ZIP disk, and you've already installed Quicken on the
new system, then use the Quicken File menu Restore command, giving the path
to the ZIP drive. If it's a USB ZIP drive, DO NOT INSTALL any Iomega
software or drivers on the new Windows XP system. Windows XP has native
drivers which will install when you plug in the ZIP drive USB cable.
Installing the Iomega software only gave me problems with my Windows XP
system. If it's a parallel port ZIP drive, then you have no choice but to
download and install the drivers from the Iomega site.

 

[Pat Horridge]

I am trying to help a friend set up his new computer.
Its running XP home but his old Pet 2 ran 98se. It had a
zip drive and all 15 years of Quicken was backed up on
this computer's zip. He had not been running any virus
protection and something slowed the old 98 to a crawl. I
got it going, still somewhat slow and set the two CPU's
side by side to hook his zip to the XP and tried to
transfer the files to his XP. XP keeps saying the file
format is unreadable? We used an older zip disk and got
it to transfer, but left out a bunch of info. Could be a
bad zip disk? Is there any way to transfer this file? I
know we can use a cable and computer to computer, but are
worried about the virus. He is running protection on the
new computer. Any help would be great. Lyle

I'd be inclined to get an old IDE drive (or even a new one as they are so
cheap nowadays)
Add it into the old PC as a slave. Copy all the data from the Zips to the
IDE drive.
Move the drive into the new PC as a slave.
Re-start the new PC. Don't worry about viruses as your not booting off the
drive.
Before you access any files from the second drive run the AV scanner over
them to be safe (although the AV software should scan the files on access
anyway)
When you know they are all ok you can burn them to CD. (you did include a CD
burner in the new PC?)