Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

[Guest Adela]

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....

[Guest Big Al]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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?

[Guest Nonny]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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?

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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.

[Guest Adela]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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

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> 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?

[Guest Adela]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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?

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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?

[Guest marx404]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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

[Guest Big Al]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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?

>

>

[Guest Allen]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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

[Guest Nonny]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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.

[Guest Adela]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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

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> 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

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: Anyone knows where to format zip disk?

 

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