Winxp and my zip drive

[Glitchny]

I ahve an iomega 100mg zip drive and for some reaosn winxp pro will not recognize it. When i run red hat 8.0 the drive is there i ahve mounted it saved files to it etc. yet for some reason xp doesnt think it exsits. any reason for this?

thanx

 

[ai42]

USB? IDE? SCSI? WinXP should have native support for Zip100/250 built in USB and IDE.

 

[joey2k]

I can't say exactly why but I do know XP has native support for it. Mine was recognized right away.

Check your device manager and see if the zip drive has any errors (yellow exclamation point).

http://groups.google.com has always been an incredible help to me when solving these types of problems.

-- Joel

 

[woodie1]

My ZIP Drive was detected by XP with no problem too. It does like to show up as a "Floppy B" sometimes though.

 

[Glitchny]

it is IDE, and where does one find the device maneger? if i try to install new hbardware it doesnt notice the drive at all.

 

[ROJAS]

Glitchny: I ran into the same problem when Win Xp was introduced last year. I believe Iomega and Microsoft didn't get together and include all drivers for zip drive. I know the 250 meg zip drive doesn't have the problem. My zip 100 was detected, but when I was trying to use the drive a week later, it wiped out 2 of my full zip disks. Go to Iomega and download the latest zip 100 ide (atapi) drivers. Install, and reboot your computer. You will have any more problems.

ROJAS

 

[Glitchny]

I went to iomega and installed the new drivers and did a reboot and still doesnt see the drive. its not in the device manager or anywhere that i know of, any other ideas?

thanx
glitch

 

[Dunjon]

Originally posted by: ai42
USB? IDE? SCSI? WinXP should have native support for Zip100/250 built in USB and IDE.

Actually I think you have to install the zip software with winxp. I couldn't get mine to work and Iomega's site said to install the software.

 

[Pink0]

and where does one find the device maneger? if

Wow, you know how to mount a drive in linux but you don't know where device manager is in windows? It's listed in the windows help file....umm...anyway, it's prolly listed as an unknown device.

 

[Glitchny]

yeah i found the device manager (i imediatly realized where it was after i hit the reply button) . the zip drive inst listed anywhere. i installed the iomega software the first time but the driver i dowloaded made me uninstall it. ill try reinstalling the software and seeing what happens.

thanx