Iomega Zip drive and NT=problems...

[Hobbes]

Hi,
Anybody out there know how to change the drive letter of a Zip drive installed on an NT4 WS, AND get it to stick after rebooting? Disk Admin doesn't hold up to rebooting. The Zip defaults to D:\. This screws with whatever might have been assigned to the original D:\ drive. Do I have to mess with the registry? Exactly what would I have to do if I do (regedit makes me queasy)...

Thanks in advance,
Hobbes

 

[fenris]

Do you need all the tools that the zip drive comes with, or do you need the zip drive to act like a hard drive?

If you need it to act like a hard drive, just use the guest program. That is what I did when I need to backup data off the NT machines at school. It worked with no problems.

Alternatively you could change the letter of the d: to e: or something like that.

 

[jant]

The simplest solution is to add the user variable parameter 'lastdrive=z' to the NT system properties. It is an old dos parameter but it works well with NT ws/svr. What it does is allow the system to allocate more drive letters instead of imposing D: as the last drive

Cheers


jant [sig][/sig]

 

[wayneip]

Ive had this problem with my partitions in NT with a zip the zip was in before formatting the second partition had to remove software for zip unplug zip reboot reformat the second remove the second partition recreate it and format again shut down reconnect zip restart and reinstall software the zip should now be E [sig][/sig]