Rod Bishop
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I retired 15 years ago and moved to south Louisiana. Everything we had went into storage. Last week we finally went through everything and I found about 60 Iomega 100 zip disks and about 30 3.5 floppy disk.
I would like to go over them all to see if any family photos might be stored in the pile of disks. I rebuilt one PC that still had a 3.5 floppy in it. I found dozens of pictures worth keeping.
I already found a VCR tape from Christmas 1988 when every family member was alive and healthly. I transfered the video to DVDs and made those still living a copy.
But I'm stuck on the Iomega 100 zip drive disks. I still have the external zip drive with the orginal epson tool zip disk, and the orginal 3.5 floppy from epson with DOS and windows 3.1 drivers on it, but I can't find a Vista or XP driver so either PC can oen the disks for viewing.
I also have a internal zip drive I put in both PCs but I can't get either pC to see the drive and give the drive a drive letter.
The closest I've come is the internal zip drive with Vista. the PC sees there something there but doesn't see it as a Iomega Zip drive.
I've tried several sites that offer the XP and Vista device drivers but so far none has completed the job. They usually just lock up the PC from a restart and I have to remove the zip drive to get the PC to come back on.
I just want to see what's on the disk and possible save any family memories from the trash can.
Any Ideas on getting a PC to see the Zip drive and assign a drive letter?
Or has time passed me by?
Thanks
I would like to go over them all to see if any family photos might be stored in the pile of disks. I rebuilt one PC that still had a 3.5 floppy in it. I found dozens of pictures worth keeping.
I already found a VCR tape from Christmas 1988 when every family member was alive and healthly. I transfered the video to DVDs and made those still living a copy.
But I'm stuck on the Iomega 100 zip drive disks. I still have the external zip drive with the orginal epson tool zip disk, and the orginal 3.5 floppy from epson with DOS and windows 3.1 drivers on it, but I can't find a Vista or XP driver so either PC can oen the disks for viewing.
I also have a internal zip drive I put in both PCs but I can't get either pC to see the drive and give the drive a drive letter.
The closest I've come is the internal zip drive with Vista. the PC sees there something there but doesn't see it as a Iomega Zip drive.
I've tried several sites that offer the XP and Vista device drivers but so far none has completed the job. They usually just lock up the PC from a restart and I have to remove the zip drive to get the PC to come back on.
I just want to see what's on the disk and possible save any family memories from the trash can.
Any Ideas on getting a PC to see the Zip drive and assign a drive letter?
Or has time passed me by?
Thanks