This is interesting. My particular disk were formatted and written to using
standard Windows drivers under NT4. The drive that was used was a genuine
Iomega ZIP, but it was an external SCSI drive. What is particularly curious
is that the disk are readable in my other XP computer, and on my computer if
I boot to Win98. But even when I installed a fresh copy of XP Pro on my
computer, the zip disks are still not readable. Those that have been
formatted to NTFS, however, are readable even though they were written by
the same system as the FAT disks. It is only the FAT formatted disks that
are giving me the problem!

Peter
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I had a batch of internal ZIP drives, also NEC, that came with a suite of
programs, and drivers. If the units were installed w/o installing the
drivers, they worked fine. If you installed the software, and the included
drivers, they also worked fine.

The problem was that other systems including w95, W98, NT, etc. were unable
to read or write to disk that were formatted or written to using computers
that had the included drivers loaded. They were also unable to recognize ZIP
disk from other computer systems, and would ask if you would like to format
the disk. I tried replacing the drivers, and deleting the software, but was
never able to get any of the systems back to writing in the standard ZIP
disk format. I ended up reformatting the hard drive and using only the
generic windows drivers. I ended up trashing the software that came with
these units, and never had any further problems.

Dennis Noble

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