Zip Drive Problem

[Guest]

I replaced my hard drive and upgraded from Win 98 SE to Windows XP Home Edit. I did not make any hardware changes. Everything went smooth except for my Iomega Drive (atapi/ide 100) showing up as "Removable Storage" under "MY Computer" Device manage displays it correctly. Bios setting has it listed as a second floppy drive. I can get the drive to eject but it will not format or let me read the contents. I have tried disconnection it and reloading it. Same result. When I right click properities it say "file type "raw" beats me." But under hardware it is listed as Iomega 100 mg zip. ??? Would it have sometihing to do with jumper settings. I can not see this being an issure though since it worked fine with the current jumper settings in Win98 SE. I even tried to format with NTFS file type and Fat won't format , Just says cannot format. I hope someone has a fix for this problem. Thanks ahead of time.
BP

 

[Guest]

Since you upgraded from windows 98 to windows xp that means the drivers for 98 are not compatible for xp.
Hence you will need to uninstall the device in device manager
Then click on refresh and scan for new hardware.
Then xp will detect the zip drive and prompt you to insert the xp cd to update the drivers.
if it doesnt work then you will have to get the updated drivers for the zip drive form the vendor.

 

[Marcus Fox]

I replaced my hard drive and upgraded from Win 98 SE to Windows XP Home

Edit. I did not make any hardware changes. Everything went smooth except
for my Iomega Drive (atapi/ide 100) showing up as "Removable Storage"
under "MY Computer" Device manage displays it correctly. Bios setting has
it listed as a second floppy drive. I can get the drive to eject but it
will not format or let me read the contents. I have tried disconnection it
and reloading it. Same result. When I right click properities it say "file
type "raw" beats me." But under hardware it is listed as Iomega 100 mg zip.
??? Would it have sometihing to do with jumper settings. I can not see this
being an issure though since it worked fine with the current jumper settings
in Win98 SE. I even tried to format with NTFS file type and Fat won't
format , Just says cannot format. I hope someone has a fix for this
problem. Thanks ahead of time.

You DO NOT want to format ZIP disks with anything other than the format
routines provided by Iomega in their software, otherwise you risk screwing
the disk. You may need to install Iomega Ware from the downloads section of
www.iomega.com.

Marcus

 

[Eric P.]

I'm using Iomega ZIP-100 ATAPI/IDE drives for many years.

I never downloaded any special Iomega software to use with those drives,
not when using them in Windows 98(SE) and not to use them in Windows XP
Home.

Afterall those ZIP drives are not that special when they conform to the
ATA IDE/ATAPI specification!

When I did a clean install of Windows XP I disconnected as much hardware
as I could beforehand, among them the Iomega ZIP-100 drive that was
detected and installed by Windows XP properly when reconnected again later.

I never had a problem formatting ZIP-100 disks, not in Windows 98(SE)
and not in Windows XP.

 

[Marcus Fox]

I'm using Iomega ZIP-100 ATAPI/IDE drives for many years.

I never downloaded any special Iomega software to use with those drives,
not when using them in Windows 98(SE) and not to use them in Windows XP
Home.

Afterall those ZIP drives are not that special when they conform to the
ATA IDE/ATAPI specification!

When I did a clean install of Windows XP I disconnected as much hardware
as I could beforehand, among them the Iomega ZIP-100 drive that was
detected and installed by Windows XP properly when reconnected again later.

I never had a problem formatting ZIP-100 disks, not in Windows 98(SE)
and not in Windows XP.

It is very well known that this reduces the life of the disk. Search Google
archives on alt.iomega.zip.jaz. The proper IOMEGAware, which includes zip
drive tools can be downloaded for free from www.iomega.com

Marcus

 

[Eric P.]

Thank you for your reaction.
I know about IomegaWare ofcourse, but don't like it.

Also I don't believe formatting in Windows reduces life of the disk.
My Iomega ZIP-100 ATAPI/IDE drives and disks have survived several
generations of computers (from june 1997 on).

Many ZIP-100 disks I have much longer, I bought them for my ZIP-100
Parallel Port that I still use now and then.
(For this version of the ZIP-100 there is no need in Windows XP to
install Iomega software.)

 

[Bob Harris]

I had an internal ZIP-100 when I upgraded from 98 to XP. XP loaded the
correct drivers and the ZIP worked fine. More recently I built a new PC
with an internal ZIP-250. Again, XP handled the details.

However, neither ZIP drive shows in my BIOS setup as a "second floppy
drive". instead, the ZIP drive shows as the primary slave. (The primary
master is a DVD drive, and I have SATA/150 disks, so they do not show as
IDE/ATAPI devices.)

Assuming that you have ATA not SATA hard drive(s), which are on the primary
IDE controller, then the ZIP should be on the secondary controller, probably
with a CD or DVD device.

I replaced my hard drive and upgraded from Win 98 SE to Windows XP Home

Edit. I did not make any hardware changes. Everything went smooth except
for my Iomega Drive (atapi/ide 100) showing up as "Removable Storage"
under "MY Computer" Device manage displays it correctly. Bios setting has
it listed as a second floppy drive. I can get the drive to eject but it
will not format or let me read the contents. I have tried disconnection it
and reloading it. Same result. When I right click properities it say "file
type "raw" beats me." But under hardware it is listed as Iomega 100 mg zip.
??? Would it have sometihing to do with jumper settings. I can not see this
being an issure though since it worked fine with the current jumper settings
in Win98 SE. I even tried to format with NTFS file type and Fat won't
format , Just says cannot format. I hope someone has a fix for this
problem. Thanks ahead of time.