Re: Zip Drive Woes

Miguel Guhlin (mguhlin@tenet.edu)
Sat, 3 Aug 1996 01:53:27 EDT

On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, William M. Bercu wrote:

> We had a zip disk lock up in a drive in our lab. The computer doesn't
> seem to want to read the disk. We tried it on a couple of different
> computers and it seems that the drive itself will not recognize the disk.

Run Norton Utilities and see if you can get it to fix the disk. Norton
Utils will sometimes recognize a disk that your computer won't.

> The disk worked fine earlier, in another zip.
> How can we get the disk out of the zip?

Disconnect it, turn off and on, push the little button. It should come
out.

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