I currently use Win 2000 with NTFS and also back up data using a Zip drive.
In the past, I have had installed zip drives marketed by NEC. I never
installed the provided NEC drivers because they caused the Zip drive to
format and save data in a format that was not recognized by other standard
Iomega Zip drives. If you used the above mentioned driver, once Windows 2000
was installed, it will use the standard and MS supplied drivers. Because of
this, the system would not recognize the disk until it is formatted to the
standard Iomega zip format.

I don't know if this is your actual problem, however, I have seen the above
scenario allot in the past and would instruct my clients of this problem. I
don't know if there in an NT or 2000 driver for this drive. Have you tried to
format and use a disk with the current MS Iomega type drivers?

Dennis Noble

> I just recently upgrade one of my computors to Win 2000. I backed up alot of
>  important data on zip disk. Problem now is I can't seem to access the disk.
>  I went with FAT32 when setting up the hard drive. I can still access an
>  older drive in the system that is still FAT16. Win 2000 recognized the zip
>  drive and apparently set it up properly whereas the system does show the
>  drive in "My Computor" and in "Windows Explorer", but when I try to access
>  he drive the little light does blink several times and then I get a message
>  to insert a disk when there is alraedy a disk inserted. Reinserting or
>  changing disk doesn't seem to help.

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