If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
How to reformat my ZIP 100 disks?
I have several ZIP 100 disks that I used on my PC when I had Win 98. I
had compressed them all. I am trying to use them again in my USB ZIP 250 drive on my current WinXP machine, and they are unuseable. Win XP has no way to mount them I suppose. And when I click on PROPERTIES (of the ZIP DRIVE volume), there is no option to just reformat them. Partition Magic 8 will not detect and show a ZIP drive volume either. I kind of need them as my secondary Win XP machine is using the older original ZIP 100 drive. ANy way to get them useable again? |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
password protected? zipware loaded?
"Jim Caldwell" wrote in message ... I have several ZIP 100 disks that I used on my PC when I had Win 98. I had compressed them all. I am trying to use them again in my USB ZIP 250 drive on my current WinXP machine, and they are unuseable. Win XP has no way to mount them I suppose. And when I click on PROPERTIES (of the ZIP DRIVE volume), there is no option to just reformat them. Partition Magic 8 will not detect and show a ZIP drive volume either. I kind of need them as my secondary Win XP machine is using the older original ZIP 100 drive. ANy way to get them useable again? |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
"Jim Caldwell" wrote in message ... I have several ZIP 100 disks that I used on my PC when I had Win 98. I had compressed them all. I am trying to use them again in my USB ZIP 250 drive on my current WinXP machine, and they are unuseable. Win XP has no way to mount them I suppose. And when I click on PROPERTIES (of the ZIP DRIVE volume), there is no option to just reformat them. Partition Magic 8 will not detect and show a ZIP drive volume either. I kind of need them as my secondary Win XP machine is using the older original ZIP 100 drive. ANy way to get them useable again? Visit the folks at "alt.iomega.zip.jazz" newsgroup, I'm sure they can help. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
I have several ZIP 100 disks that I used on my PC when I had Win 98.
I had compressed them all. I am trying to use them again in my USB ZIP 250 drive on my current WinXP machine, and they are unuseable. Win XP has no way to mount them I suppose. And when I click on PROPERTIES (of the ZIP DRIVE volume), there is no option to just reformat them. Partition Magic 8 will not detect and show a ZIP drive volume either. I kind of need them as my secondary Win XP machine is using the older original ZIP 100 drive. ANy way to get them useable again? You can get the latest version of iomegaware he http://www.iomega.com/software/ioware402pc.html Install it, open it, connect your and insert your disk. When the disk is inserted, you should see choices light up that were grayed out with no disk inserted. One of them should be "format disk". |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:52:08 -0400, "David Besack"
wrote: I have several ZIP 100 disks that I used on my PC when I had Win 98. I had compressed them all. I am trying to use them again in my USB ZIP 250 drive on my current WinXP machine, and they are unuseable. You're not trying to use ZIP 100 disks on a ZIP 250 machine, are you?? I don't think the two are compatible. You need a ZIP 100 machine to run ZIP 100 disks. But I could be wrong! |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
XP is only compatible with NTFS file compression, so it can't read Win98
compressed drives. I'm unsure, but I think that a 250 MB Zip drive can't format a 100 MB cartridge, although it can read and write to one. I suggest formatting them in the machine with a Zip 100 drive. I use an internal IDE Zip 100 drive under XP. I don't use it much, but it works. I don't have the Iomega software installed, as I have never used the soft write protection feature. (I vaguely recall that Iomega claims that their utility is superior for formatting disks, but I've had no trouble just using the Windows utility.) HTH. Bob Knowlden Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. "Jim Caldwell" wrote in message ... I have several ZIP 100 disks that I used on my PC when I had Win 98. I had compressed them all. I am trying to use them again in my USB ZIP 250 drive on my current WinXP machine, and they are unuseable. Win XP has no way to mount them I suppose. And when I click on PROPERTIES (of the ZIP DRIVE volume), there is no option to just reformat them. Partition Magic 8 will not detect and show a ZIP drive volume either. I kind of need them as my secondary Win XP machine is using the older original ZIP 100 drive. ANy way to get them useable again? |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
[Announcement] FlashBoot - a tool to make USB Flash Disks bootable | PrimeExpert | General | 0 | February 6th 05 05:58 PM |
cheap system w/linux - reformat for win98se | Brooke W. | General | 9 | August 12th 04 03:52 AM |
New Mobo, Old Disks | Buck Turgidson | General | 4 | October 22nd 03 11:59 PM |
Ghost and Partiton Magic only seeing 2 of 3 SCSI disks | Mike Daniel | Homebuilt PC's | 0 | October 11th 03 04:25 AM |
Get message "Remove disks or other media" since converting from NTFS to FAT32 | Paul Hill | General | 1 | July 6th 03 02:03 PM |