Good afternoon all,
I need to burn a 100mb Zip disk to update the software on one of our aircraft, and I have been having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to do it. I consider myself pretty tech-savvy, but this has me stumped and I've never been afraid to ask for help from those smarter than me.
I purchased an Iomega Zip100 external drive from Ebay (USB), and 10 discs from Amazon. The computer recognizes the drive, it shows as "USB Drive" in explorer, and is grayed out. Once a disc is inserted, it is not longer grayed out, but clicking on the drive results in a prompt to "Please Insert a Disc". I opened disk management, and it shows there is a 96MB unallocated drive there, however trying to format the drive leads to a cyclic redundancy check. Does anybody have any idea on next steps? I tried another Zip 250 drive we had on hand before this, and it also did not work. It would occasionally read the disks, but as soon as I tried writing on them they became corrupt and unreadable. Is it possible the first drive corrupted all the discs and I need to buy new ones?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am out of options and the only other way to update the software in the aircraft is to spend $15,000+ on a Solid State Data Transfer Unit.
Thanks in advance,
Patrick
I need to burn a 100mb Zip disk to update the software on one of our aircraft, and I have been having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to do it. I consider myself pretty tech-savvy, but this has me stumped and I've never been afraid to ask for help from those smarter than me.
I purchased an Iomega Zip100 external drive from Ebay (USB), and 10 discs from Amazon. The computer recognizes the drive, it shows as "USB Drive" in explorer, and is grayed out. Once a disc is inserted, it is not longer grayed out, but clicking on the drive results in a prompt to "Please Insert a Disc". I opened disk management, and it shows there is a 96MB unallocated drive there, however trying to format the drive leads to a cyclic redundancy check. Does anybody have any idea on next steps? I tried another Zip 250 drive we had on hand before this, and it also did not work. It would occasionally read the disks, but as soon as I tried writing on them they became corrupt and unreadable. Is it possible the first drive corrupted all the discs and I need to buy new ones?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am out of options and the only other way to update the software in the aircraft is to spend $15,000+ on a Solid State Data Transfer Unit.
Thanks in advance,
Patrick