Re: Zip drives - Did I miss something

From: danpayer (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 05:27:28 -0700

You can do that? I might be able to pull one from another
machine. (Oops that one is SCSI). Anyway, tell me more.
What do you do, write an image file than copy it to a disc?

I'm going to use the old Zip drive til I figure out the
answer. The thing's been around for years and I'm not
about to let it beat me now.

Thanks for that suggestion. Never knew....
dan

>-----Original Message-----
>Just a last question: Do you not have a CD Burner? You
may want to look
>into buying one for data backup. They are very
inexpensive (around
>$20-$30 for a good one).
>
>----
>Nathan McNulty
>
>
>danpayer wrote:
>> I want to install Partition Magic on this big hard
drive
>> but before I do I know I need to backup. I thought I
could
>> use my parallel port Zip drive.
>>
>> As I started shuffling files around getting things
ready
>> Windows Explorer began crashing with regularity. I
>> installed the Iomegaware with the parallel port upgrade
>> just to be sure. This didn't help. Everytime I moved
a
>> file Windows Explorer crashed.
>>
>> Sort of cancels the plan to use the Zip for backup.
>>
>> Did I goof, or miss the announcement, or is WinXP and
Zip
>> drives just incompatible? Guess I better not pull out
>> that old Ditto drive....
>> dan
>.
>

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