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I have taken an internal Iomega zip drive from an old Compac and put it
in an old Dell. When I replace a disk with another disc and try to view
the files on it, the files on the previous disk keeps appearing.
"Refresh" doesn't help. The only thing that works is to right click on
the zip icon and press "properties" when the drive is empty. Then I
place the second disk in and the correct contents shows up. What can be
causing this problem? My Dell has NT4 with service pack 6.
Thanks for any info.
<rebel70125@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have taken an internal Iomega zip drive from an old Compac and put it
> in an old Dell. When I replace a disk with another disc and try to view
> the files on it, the files on the previous disk keeps appearing.
> "Refresh" doesn't help. The only thing that works is to right click on
> the zip icon and press "properties" when the drive is empty. Then I
> place the second disk in and the correct contents shows up. What can be
> causing this problem? My Dell has NT4 with service pack 6.
> Thanks for any info.[/color]
AFAIK, you must install a a driver before your ZIP drive will
work properly.
I have already installed the latest driver before I started using the
zip drive.
I discovered antoher problem. When I open "My computer" it takes a long
time before the drive Icons show up. I disconnected the Zip drive and
when I opened "My computer" the icons appeared instantly.. The up to
date driver for NT didn't seem to help.
[email]rebel70125@yahoo.com[/email] wrote in news:1107024669.220262.89910
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> I have taken an internal Iomega zip drive from an old Compac and put it
> in an old Dell. When I replace a disk with another disc and try to view
> the files on it, the files on the previous disk keeps appearing.
> "Refresh" doesn't help. The only thing that works is to right click on
> the zip icon and press "properties" when the drive is empty. Then I
> place the second disk in and the correct contents shows up. What can be
> causing this problem? My Dell has NT4 with service pack 6.
> Thanks for any info.
>[/color]
Just some ideas - from similar problems that I have seen:
Some Zip drives have a jumper marked "drive A" - if this is installed,
try removing it. Note that this is not the master/slave jumper.
I have also seen cases where a drive formatted using DOS or Win9x does
not work when you try to use it under WinNT - sometimes this seems to be
related to the jumper mentioned above, where one version of Windows
ignores the jumper, but another version changes behaviour depending on
the jumper.
I think that the difference is whether the disk is treated like a floppy,
or as a hard drive type of device. The partition table is different in
these two cases. It may also depend on the computer's BIOS, as to
whether the BIOS recognizes ZIP drives as ZIP drives. I have seen cases
where setting the BIOS drive type to "none" for the ZIP drive will fix a
problem (have Windows find the drive instead of the BIOS).
If the drive is not recognized as a "removeable device", Windows may not
bother checking if the media has been change.