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Iomega 250 Drives Assignment Problem 1

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Redneck

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Jan 14, 2001
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Reformatted my HD. Upon install for Internal Zip 250 it goes through the setup and shows the assigning drive procedure but does not allow me to assign a drive nor does it show one actually being assigned. In the properties for the reflected problem it acts like it needs a driver. However, I have tried to find a drive that might correct the problem on all of the disks that came with it, C drive, and also dl'd the driver set from Iomega and tried it without any success. I even changed my 2 CD drives to one up leaving a empty drive number to see if it might take the bait and use that one. I have uninstalled and installed the software numerous times. Am running Win 98SE, have 2 cd drives and partitioned my hd to C, D, and E with the CD's being G and H. I know that when I bought the cpu 2 years ago and installed the software it did okay. I'm open to suggestions for a resolution.

Thanks.
Redneck
 
Not exactly sure as to a sure fix but here's some ideas. I'm assumming you're assumming it's a configuration issue since it seemed to stop working at the time you reformatted the HDD? Coincidents can happen. I would check internal connections, make sure both the drive is getting power and the data cable is securely seated on both ends. Also, if another PC is available, try it on another system to see if it works there. Here's a link that may also help:
 
Try jumper settings make sure it is slave or a master on the secondary ide channel, Zip drives do not like being on the same ide cable as Hard drives, they run at different speeds e.g a HDD is running at ATA 100 and zip drives cd roms run at ATA 66, you do not need any driver for the zip drive to be picked up by windows so I would have to say forget about that for the time being

just try the basic of things

Later
NEo81 >:):O>
 
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