Hello, I dont know whether this is under your jurisdiction, but if anyone
knows where I should go in my computer to format my Iomega zip disk I'd be
deeply grateful! I've spent hours searching google and no answer came
forth.

I have WinXP and just installed IomegaWare. My zip disks are the plain
ones, no pluggings or USB, etc. Thanks ever so much! Adela

P.S. I asked at the Iomega forum but no answer....

Adela wrote:
> Hello, I dont know whether this is under your jurisdiction, but if anyone
> knows where I should go in my computer to format my Iomega zip disk I'd be
> deeply grateful! I've spent hours searching google and no answer came
> forth.
>
> I have WinXP and just installed IomegaWare. My zip disks are the plain
> ones, no pluggings or USB, etc. Thanks ever so much! Adela
>
> P.S. I asked at the Iomega forum but no answer....
>
>
Did you try right clicking on them and picking format?
How about Disk Manager?

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:17:01 -0400, "Adela" <nuevadela2@rcn.com> wrote:

>Hello, I dont know whether this is under your jurisdiction, but if anyone
>knows where I should go in my computer to format my Iomega zip disk I'd be
>deeply grateful! I've spent hours searching google and no answer came
>forth.
>
>I have WinXP and just installed IomegaWare. My zip disks are the plain
>ones, no pluggings or USB, etc. Thanks ever so much! Adela
>
>P.S. I asked at the Iomega forum but no answer....


How long did you wait? Five minutes? Ten?

Nonny wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:17:01 -0400, "Adela" <nuevadela2@rcn.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I dont know whether this is under your jurisdiction, but if anyone
>> knows where I should go in my computer to format my Iomega zip disk I'd
>> be
>> deeply grateful! I've spent hours searching google and no answer came
>> forth.
>>
>> I have WinXP and just installed IomegaWare. My zip disks are the plain
>> ones, no pluggings or USB, etc. Thanks ever so much! Adela
>>
>> P.S. I asked at the Iomega forum but no answer....
>
>
> How long did you wait? Five minutes? Ten?

I think it was 15.

Thank you Big Al, I'll go and try it. :o) Adela

As to the 2 persons who answered with UNSOLICITED sarcasm...I seriously
doubt that they could ever be of any help to anyone...

"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:WgI0k.1105$jX.795@trnddc04...
> Adela wrote:
>> Hello, I dont know whether this is under your jurisdiction, but if anyone
>> knows where I should go in my computer to format my Iomega zip disk I'd
>> be deeply grateful! I've spent hours searching google and no answer came
>> forth.
>>
>> I have WinXP and just installed IomegaWare. My zip disks are the plain
>> ones, no pluggings or USB, etc. Thanks ever so much! Adela
>>
>> P.S. I asked at the Iomega forum but no answer....
> Did you try right clicking on them and picking format?
> How about Disk Manager?

It worked! Thanks so very much Big Al! Adela


"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:WgI0k.1105$jX.795@trnddc04...
> Adela wrote:
>> Hello, I dont know whether this is under your jurisdiction, but if anyone
>> knows where I should go in my computer to format my Iomega zip disk I'd
>> be deeply grateful! I've spent hours searching google and no answer came
>> forth.
>>
>> I have WinXP and just installed IomegaWare. My zip disks are the plain
>> ones, no pluggings or USB, etc. Thanks ever so much! Adela
>>
>> P.S. I asked at the Iomega forum but no answer....
> Did you try right clicking on them and picking format?
> How about Disk Manager?

Yeah, Nonny, knock it off!
(sorry Adela - it's been a rough week)

Adela wrote:
> Thank you Big Al, I'll go and try it. :o) Adela
>
> As to the 2 persons who answered with UNSOLICITED sarcasm...I seriously
> doubt that they could ever be of any help to anyone...
>
> "Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:WgI0k.1105$jX.795@trnddc04...
>> Adela wrote:
>>> Hello, I dont know whether this is under your jurisdiction, but if
>>> anyone
>>> knows where I should go in my computer to format my Iomega zip disk I'd
>>> be deeply grateful! I've spent hours searching google and no answer
>>> came
>>> forth.
>>>
>>> I have WinXP and just installed IomegaWare. My zip disks are the plain
>>> ones, no pluggings or USB, etc. Thanks ever so much! Adela
>>>
>>> P.S. I asked at the Iomega forum but no answer....
>> Did you try right clicking on them and picking format?
>> How about Disk Manager?

Adela, not being sarcastic, but Iomega ZIP Disk? I only hope that you wish
to recover data and not to store critical data on a ZIP drive. Just trying
to be helpful, there are many who still risk the "click of death" form ZIP
drives today (look it up on Google) it's Russian roulette if you ask me,
especially when you can use CDR or DVDR reliably, which also is a format
everyone uses now. I would also suggest USB thumb drives as an alternative.

--
marx404

Adela wrote:
> It worked! Thanks so very much Big Al! Adela
>
>

I was about to pull out the drive and dusting it off.... :-)
Wonder if it would sell on Ebay with about 20 100mb floppies? Hmmmmm....

Glad to hear Adela.

> "Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:WgI0k.1105$jX.795@trnddc04...
>> Adela wrote:
>>> Hello, I dont know whether this is under your jurisdiction, but if anyone
>>> knows where I should go in my computer to format my Iomega zip disk I'd
>>> be deeply grateful! I've spent hours searching google and no answer came
>>> forth.
>>>
>>> I have WinXP and just installed IomegaWare. My zip disks are the plain
>>> ones, no pluggings or USB, etc. Thanks ever so much! Adela
>>>
>>> P.S. I asked at the Iomega forum but no answer....
>> Did you try right clicking on them and picking format?
>> How about Disk Manager?
>
>

marx404 wrote:
> Adela, not being sarcastic, but Iomega ZIP Disk? I only hope that you wish
> to recover data and not to store critical data on a ZIP drive. Just trying
> to be helpful, there are many who still risk the "click of death" form ZIP
> drives today (look it up on Google) it's Russian roulette if you ask me,
> especially when you can use CDR or DVDR reliably, which also is a format
> everyone uses now. I would also suggest USB thumb drives as an alternative.
>
When ZIP drives were introduced they were worthwhile, although not
exactly the most reliable devices that ever came down the pike. I tended
to make copies on two different discs to cut the odds of data loss. As
soon as CD drives and CD-R disks came down to affordable prices the ZIPs
were rendered totally obsolete in every respect that was important to
me: reliability, capacity, price and speed (I may have left a few things
out). Even with their questionable reliability, I found them better than
a big stack of 1.2 mb floppies. A few months after I quit using them our
church got a new pastor who was still using them. I gave him all my
discs and even threw in my drive, in case his failed and he was stuck
with a bunch of unreadable data. Incidentally, I live in Austin and Dell
used to have an outlet store that sold all kinds of stuff; machines
rebuilt under warranty, parts stripped from unrepairable machines, etc.
(OT: there were many stories around town about great systems being built
by high-tech dumpster divers from their trash.) They always had a big
barrel full of MS mice for about $5 each and for a while a barrel of ZIP
disks for $1 or $2. I bought most of my ZIPs out of that barrel and
found them to be just as good as brand new ones. But---that was then,
this is now, and ZIPs are just about as obsolete as automobile cranks
and 5.25 inch floppies--more so even than 3.5 inch floppies.
Allen

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:38:55 GMT, Big Al <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote:

>I was about to pull out the drive and dusting it off.... :-)
>Wonder if it would sell on Ebay with about 20 100mb floppies? Hmmmmm....

You might get five bucks for it all.

Why anyone would want to use that anymore is beyond me.

Thanks very much marx and allen for the genuine information on the
obsolescense of the zip disks. I'm aware of the risks of this method, but
there are reasons why I don't go and get the latest "fashion" in computer
"toys". I personally know many individuals and small businesses that have
been using them for a long time without experiencing the click of death.
Granted - it can happen - and I recognize it.

I really appreciate your warnings though, and will upgrade (when I find it
possible) to more secure methods, as you suggested. :o) Adela


"marx404" <404@404.com> wrote in message
news:4843dcb1$0$5706$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> Adela, not being sarcastic, but Iomega ZIP Disk? I only hope that you wish
> to recover data and not to store critical data on a ZIP drive. Just trying
> to be helpful, there are many who still risk the "click of death" form ZIP
> drives today (look it up on Google) it's Russian roulette if you ask me,
> especially when you can use CDR or DVDR reliably, which also is a format
> everyone uses now. I would also suggest USB thumb drives as an
> alternative.
>
> --
> marx404

Flash USB "drives" are the way to go now. Zip disks are waaaay too
limiting, slow, bulky, and cumbersome, and limited in their size. Copy
the stuff OFF of them to a flash drive, and you won't need the zip disks (or
drive) anymore.

Adela wrote:
> Thanks very much marx and allen for the genuine information on the
> obsolescense of the zip disks. I'm aware of the risks of this method, but
> there are reasons why I don't go and get the latest "fashion" in computer
> "toys". I personally know many individuals and small businesses that have
> been using them for a long time without experiencing the click of death.
> Granted - it can happen - and I recognize it.
>
> I really appreciate your warnings though, and will upgrade (when I find it
> possible) to more secure methods, as you suggested. :o) Adela
>
>
> "marx404" <404@404.com> wrote in message
> news:4843dcb1$0$5706$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> Adela, not being sarcastic, but Iomega ZIP Disk? I only hope that you
>> wish
>> to recover data and not to store critical data on a ZIP drive. Just
>> trying
>> to be helpful, there are many who still risk the "click of death" form
>> ZIP
>> drives today (look it up on Google) it's Russian roulette if you ask me,
>> especially when you can use CDR or DVDR reliably, which also is a format
>> everyone uses now. I would also suggest USB thumb drives as an
>> alternative.
>>
>> --
>> marx404