This is a common problem with NT based system, same thing also happens with
floppy drive.  "Driver" has nothing to do with it, as there is no driver
required (OS build-in support).  I don't know if there is solution around,
as I've tried many things, but nothing works, there are always few disks
that won't be recognized by all drives.  Win98 isn't free from this problem
too, it is less likely to happen on win98, but still happens.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] ZIP drive problem under XP


Here is one more problem I identified. I have an NEC built ZIP 100 ATAPI
drive in my computer. OS is Windows XP Pro with SP1. The ZIP drive works
just fine - except... If I insert a formerly recorded ZIP disk that is
formatted as FAT, then XP does not recognize it as formatted media. If I
boot the same system to Windows 98, the media is recognized just fine. The
very strange thing is that if I take the same media to my work computer that
is running the same version of XP, the disk is read just fine. The work
computer, however, has a ZIP 250 drive in it. I suspect that the problem is
with the drivers for the ZIP drive. Anyone else run into something like
this

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