About every 3rd zip disc I put in the drive will not open. I get a popup that says 'not accessible' 'incorrect function'. I take the disc to another machine and it opens fine. Any ideas?
Well, copy the data off a disk that's causing trouble, and temporarily put it in a sub-dir on a hard disk. Then format the Zip disk, get Windows to do a surface scan, and if all is well, copy back your data.
* Question:
* Do BOTH Computers have the SAME IOMEGA SOFTWARE ??
For Zip drives to function fully, you need to have the IOMEGA software installed on a Windows computer.
** I don't know about Windows XP...... this is for Win9x.
The only other KNOWN bug involving Windows machines and Iomega Zip Drives involves the
VIA Chipset - KT133 Or KT133A
Does your mainboard fit that description ?
** If it is an INTEL processor it DOES NOT fit that category, so you can ignore that trivia.
> I would email IOMEGA tech-support, and supply them with a slightly more detailed explanation of your problem. In the past, I have called them about 3-times, and they were quite helpful.
They might have an easy solution for you.
WinNT (and likely 2K) use a lazy write method and don't commit writes to the disk ASAP. You may need to use the eject function from the IOMEGA Software to physically eject each disk before replacing. I would like to know how to force the computer (or the OS) to commit writes to removable devices rather than caching them.
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