Re: Zip Drive Delayed Write Failure - need help

LadyDungeness@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm going to take the Zip 100 drive out of my desktop tower. I'll use
the bay for my new DVD writer. So I'm copying my Zip disks to the
hard drive first. I'm getting "Delayed Write Error" messages on some
of the files; after that, Windows XP Home SP2 doesn't recognize the
files on the zip disk.

Can this be fixed so I can transfer ALL the data?

it would appear that the drive is going bad, or the disk themselves are.
Try re-reading them if possible. otherwise you're SOL, sorry.

The ZIP 100 drive has a history of failing over time, typically because
the heads get dirty or just fail. Usually you'll notice it, the drive
will start to make "The Click Of Death" (google for it, it was big news a
few years ago). This is the head retracting and realigning; if it does it
just once that's not bad, but if it continually does the click then it's
dieing. the www.grc.com site has a tool you can use to see if your drive
is failing [note you may need to put a COPY of wnaspi32.dll into the same
folder as the .exe you download; copy it from your \windows\system32].

I had this happen just last month, a 10 year old drive went kaplooie. It
complained about every disk it was fed, and clicked endlessly. I replaced
the drive w/ a backup I had lying around (lucky me), and it worked fine -
the disks that had been declared bad were just fine.

These drives can't be found anymore, except from people like me that keep
old junk around for years and years. And no, I don't have any more.
Like you I intend to migrate away from ZIP very soon, even tho I've got 50
or more disks lying around. It was a great technology when it was
young... It will pain me to toss them, as it pained my to toss away
Bernouli disks I had used many years ago.

re: trying to clean the heads, I didn't see where that was very easy. you
can open the drive up, but the heads retract into a holder of sorts, and I
couldn't get them to extend manually. I intended to use a alcohol soaked
piece of clean white paper to try cleaning the heads (old standby). They
are very delicate, but since they were already NG I figured I'd try. But
couldn't get at 'em.

Good Luck getting your data off 'em...

.

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