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Windows 3.1 Installations:
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Windows 95 and up installations:
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Troubleshooting | |
If you are in Windows 9.x, try loading DOS Mode drivers and try to access the disk. | |
In both DOS and Windows modes, if you used the Port Acceleration Program, this sometimes causes a failure. If this is DOS Mode, you can find the original settings in OPTIPPM1.OLD in the directory that the GUEST.EXE is run from. If this was done in Windows 95, you may be able to recover by copying the SYSTEM.DA0 and USER.DA0 over the SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT if Windows has not been restarted after the modification. | |
Drive Letter ProblemsWith the ATAPI/IDE drives, the BIOS may assign letter B to the drive. This is done without any driver. If you have a Bootable ZIP disk, the ZIP drive will normally become A drive and the Floppy drive will become B drive. Older BIOS' do not support this. So Software drivers are used like most other type ZIP Drives. However, later BIOS's may support this. But the settings must be correct. You may experience system lockup, multiple drive letter for the drive or inability to access the drive. See My Zip ATAPI drive is assigned drive letter B from IOMEGA's support pages. | |
Disk Read Problems | |
If you are at DOS, use the lowest speed setting. NIBBLE.ILM or NIBBLE2.ILM are generally the default file. | |
If you are loading the DOS Mode driver in the CONFIG.SYS, make sure the GUEST.INI is not also operational. | |
Parallel Port Settings: There are several Parallel Port settings on modern computers. Among these are EPP, ECP and EPP/ECP. On some computers the drive may not work in some of these environments. At boot up, enter the BIOS Setup Utility and try different settings for the Parallel port. Keep in mind that other devices such as the Printers and Scanners, may need the settings the way they were. Be sure to test all such devices when you change these settings. | |
Although Iomega disapproves of third-party programs, Steve Gibson's Trouble In Paradise (TIP) tests the disk and Drive for defects. One of my drives failed, and after TIP diagnosed it, Iomega replaced the drive free, even though it was 2.5 years old. Iomega's tests consisted of feeding it disk after disk. After they concluded that the drive was defective, they told me never to use those disks again. They did furnish me replacement disks. But fortunately I had no necessary data on those disks. Steve Gibson's test, by contrast, reported the problems on the test screen when the first disk had errors.
FIXING THE CLICK OF DEATHClick Of Death Fix. The author shows how to open the case and make some adujustments that might just give an otherwise worthless drive a new chance to be usefull.
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