Zip drive is attached to IBM laptop (Thinkpad running XP pro) through the parallel port (printer port). The laptop will not recognize or read the zip drive.What am I doing wrong?
I'm trying to re-install iomegaware zip 100 & it tells me it does not support windows 2000 so I need to update drivers. Can you please help me figure this out as I rely on my zip for backups. I have version 21.1.
thanks very much
Marlene
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OMG ZIP drives. wow (extreme legacy) 1994 made.
no, those ended 2 decades ago.
why not use USB memory sticks
or USB hdd or ssd docking ?
leave Iomega in the dust bin,
off the wiki it says.
quote: Microsoft Windows family (Parallel drives not supported on Windows 7 and above)
So you have an old Zip drive with a parallel port? You can't connect that using USB. Nor can you connect that to a computer running any version of Windows newer than XP.
Two options:
1) Buy a USB version of the Zip drive and use it to read your disks. Used, USB Zip drives seem to run around $35 or so.
2) Get a computer using an old version of Windows. If it doesn't have a parallel port, you should be able to buy a PCI card with a parallel port on it.
Once you're able to access the files, copy them onto a USB thumb drive. For $10, you can get a 32 GB USB drive, which should hold everything from at least 320 Zip disks.
Recomendation: Replace for a external hard drive, The Zip drive is outdate. With theExternal HDD you gona have more space than a Zip drive, really much more.
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