Iomega ZIP 100 external drive

[jrey55]

My question is similar to joshlam's.....
When I connect my old Iomega ZIP100 to my PC running Windows 7, all the lights are on but no one's home!
Do I need to install a driver? If so, I would be very grateful if someone can provide me a link for a free download.
I've visited the following page and associated links without success
https://lenovo-na-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1235/related/1

 

[Colif]

"Zip® 100MB, 250MB or 750MB USB, ATAPI, FireWire or SCSI drives should work with native Windows 7 drivers.
IomegaWare software does NOT work with Windows 7, so features supplied by IomegaWare will not be available.
Parallel Port Zip drives are NOT supported in Windows 7."

https://answers.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/driver-iomega-zip-100mb-windows-7/1ea26dbd-f3ec-448f-8223-8f7da12f447e

From looking around Iomega's support site, it appears the 32-bit version of Windows XP was the last version of Windows for which ZIP and JAZ drivers were issued. At the very least, you would need 64-bit drivers to identify the hardware to a 64-bit version of Windows, as the 32-bit drivers won't work, but as far as I can figure out, no 64-bit drivers were ever created for the 64-bit editions of Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 or Window Vista, which is what I would have suggested trying had I found any.

Right now, your best bet would to rebuild a computer running 32-bit Windows XP with the Iomega drives connected to them, and then use that to copy all of the files off of the Iomega ZIP and JAZ drives to newer media, like a USB flash drive or external hard disk drive. Then I would recommend putting the Iomega drives and media away someplace safe for a while (months or even a year or two) to make sure you have gotten all the files you need off of them.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-7-Vista-and-XP/Iomega-ZIP-and-JAZ-dirvers-for-Windows-7-64bit/td-p/1460387

I used to have a Zip drive, think I still have a few discs lying around. Not that it helps if they don't work anymore.

 

[bambiboom]

My question is similar to joshlam's.....
When I connect my old Iomega ZIP100 to my PC running Windows 7, all the lights are on but no one's home!
Do I need to install a driver? If so, I would be very grateful if someone can provide me a link for a free download.
I've visited the following page and associated links without success
https://lenovo-na-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1235/related/1

jrey55,

Here is a download site for an Iomega ZIP 100 driver that lists supporting Windows 7:

http://www.driverguide.com/driver/company/Iomega/index.html

If the linked driver doesn't work and the files are very important, I wonder if it would be possible to run a Windows XP as VM and download the files.

The other possibility is that there were external ZIP drives that were USB and that would avoid the parallel port driver problem.

The ZIP 100 drive was a revelation in the previous century, I have a 1998 Dell T700R (PIII 750MHz, 768MB RAM, 30 and 80GB drives on SCSI 66 controller) running Windows XP and with a ZIP 100 drive.-That's what $2,600 bought in 1998.

Dell T700R 1998

This system still runs beautifully- AutoCad 2003, WordPerfect 7, Corel Graphic Suite 7,Office 2003- and the ZIP drives containing hundreds of files with DOS extensions.

Cheers,

BambiBoom