bettablue
Veteran Member
Wonder of Wonders. A friend of mine sent me a box of stuff he no longer had any use for. I was expecting it to be a bunch of junk cables, a floppy drive or two, but when the box arrived, I was very surprised to find the forementioned junk, but in the mix were two internal 100 Meg Zip drives. One for connecting to EDI and the other SCSI. (If someone has a need for the other drive, please let me know. I'll be glad to give it to you, just pay for the shipping)
My Compaq computer is a p1 233. It had a 3.5" 1.44 Meg floppy, I added in a 5.25" 360 K DSDD floppy and id has a CD ROM and 4 Gig hard drive to which I installed Wibndows 98. Here is where my qproblem and qiestion comes in. I read all of the information on modem7's site regarding using a zip drive for storing massive amounts of programs and accessing it via Zip disks. I understand that reading data from the external Zip drive will be slower, but at the same time it will work much better for me.
Due to space limitations, my IBM 5150 lives next to me primary Windows 7 machine in my den. The Compaq has to live in a small corner elsewhere in the house and is currently only run when working with getting data to my 5150. The 5150 has an external Zip drive connected to one of the two lpt ports. Since I installed the internal Zip drive into the Compaq, replacing the 3.5" floppy, I attempted to partition the disk as described, but ran into problems. The iomega software doesn't seem to have some of the options to format the disk in fat16, and willl only format the partitions in fat32. Secondly, when I partition the disk, I am only able to read the first partition. I haven't even gotten the disk over to my 5150 yet. Allo of these issues seem to be related on the version of iomegas software I am using. Both of the Zip disks I have are later models, meaning version 2. Can someone point me to where I'm going wrong here. Maybe I'm missing something major, or simple, but whatecer the case might be, I would still like to use zip drives for loading and saving my IBM's programs and games.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My Compaq computer is a p1 233. It had a 3.5" 1.44 Meg floppy, I added in a 5.25" 360 K DSDD floppy and id has a CD ROM and 4 Gig hard drive to which I installed Wibndows 98. Here is where my qproblem and qiestion comes in. I read all of the information on modem7's site regarding using a zip drive for storing massive amounts of programs and accessing it via Zip disks. I understand that reading data from the external Zip drive will be slower, but at the same time it will work much better for me.
Due to space limitations, my IBM 5150 lives next to me primary Windows 7 machine in my den. The Compaq has to live in a small corner elsewhere in the house and is currently only run when working with getting data to my 5150. The 5150 has an external Zip drive connected to one of the two lpt ports. Since I installed the internal Zip drive into the Compaq, replacing the 3.5" floppy, I attempted to partition the disk as described, but ran into problems. The iomega software doesn't seem to have some of the options to format the disk in fat16, and willl only format the partitions in fat32. Secondly, when I partition the disk, I am only able to read the first partition. I haven't even gotten the disk over to my 5150 yet. Allo of these issues seem to be related on the version of iomegas software I am using. Both of the Zip disks I have are later models, meaning version 2. Can someone point me to where I'm going wrong here. Maybe I'm missing something major, or simple, but whatecer the case might be, I would still like to use zip drives for loading and saving my IBM's programs and games.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.