Help me before I go crazy!!!!

[UglyCasanova]

OK, the other day I plugged in my Powered USB Zip 250 drive to get some songs but it kept giving me a read error. I had used in on my Win 98 machine to get some songs. I then plugged it into my Win XP machine (don't have internet on this one and isn't networked) but it wouldn't read the disk. I then tried several other disks as well but they didn't work. It would make a sound like it would read it, click, then start over but would never read. To make sure it wasn't my drive I put it back on my old machine and it worked fine.

I dloaded the stuff iomega said to use (the ioware ver something) and ran it, but it still did the same thing. Some how during the process I messed some stuff up on my hd, and since I didn't have anything on there I needed I reformated and reinstalled Windows. I thought surely this would solve the problem, but it didn't. It still works on my old one though. Do you have any ideas?

On another note I am so fed up with this Zip drive (this isn't the first time it has given me trouble, but certainly the worst) that I was looking for another means of transferring files. I am considering a USB 2 HD. Are these things fast, reliable, and do you know if there are any bugs like the Zip seems to have?

 

[bigshooter]

thats the notorious click of death. The drive itself is done. Happened to me a ton back when i used to be a tech.

 

[fatbaby]

<< thats the notorious click of death. The drive itself is done. Happened to me a ton back when i used to be a tech. >>



he just said

<< To make sure it wasn't my drive I put it back on my old machine and it worked fine. >>

 

[Willoughbyva]

I am not sure what a zip 250 is (I assume it is a 250 mb of storage on a zip disk). CDRWs are getting pretty cheap and fast now-a-days. There are also those little usb memory drive things, but I am uncertain how expensive they would be to get, they are kind of neat since they will fit in your shirt pocket, but there is also a greater chance of losing it.