zip drive

[BruceMyers48]

Does anyone know how to get a Nec zip drive assigned a letter. I have it cabled in with my hard drive as slave and the device manager shows it as Generick Nec floppy disk. With out a drive letter assigned its no go.My windows expert guide said that I don't need any special drivers that win 98 will reconize it and install it. I even tried some Iomega drivers that I had and no show. the Iomega sofware can't find any Iomega devices. I realize that this is a generic zip so Iomega probaly could't find it for that reason. thanks. Bruce

 

[BGates2B]

That's odd. I run a NEC Zip and W98 recognized without the drivers and gave it a letter.

Try this
- Go to Device Manager.
- open Disk drives and right click on the listing for the Zip
- Go down to Properties, then to settings
- Go to the bottom and click on Reserved drive letters and assign it a single letter (for example, mine is E) and make sure the same letter is in both Start and End.

 

[BruceMyers48]

I have already tried that but every thing is grayed out except for a check mark in the removal drive box. Unchecking that does not open up any other options. bruce

 

[hammerhead]

Are you sure the 'generic NEC floppy disk' isn't the entry for your floppy drive? That's exactly what device manager on my machine states.

The Zip drive (which I have as secondary slave) has an entry marked 'Iomega Zip 100'.

It sounds to me that your computer doesn't recognize the Zip at all, is it listed during boot-up?

Apologies if I'm mistaken on this.

 

[BruceMyers48]

My Mistake . it is listed as generic IDE disk type47. The is no way to set a drive letter. Those areas in the settings area are grayed out except for DMA and Removable. Bruce

 

[hammerhead]

Nope, that is your hard drive!

 

[BruceMyers48]

Sorry I'm Dain Bread to night. I guess it all comes down to windows is not reconizing the zip drive. Just my luck. Maybe I should set it to master and my cd-rom to slave and hook it in with the cd instead of the hard drive. Bruce

 

[hammerhead]

I would definately recommend putting it on the secondary with your CD-ROM.

 

[BruceMyers48]

I figured out the problem with the zip drive. I placed a jumper on the two pins for slave . I decided to take the jumper off,with the jumper off it is also slave and the PC and windows reconized it and it is working. Thanks for the help. bruce