drive atapi 100 TM User’s Guide • Getting the Most out of Your Zip Drive • Operating Your Zip Drive • Zip Tips • Iomega Tools Software • Special Information for Windows NT , Windows 95, and Windows /DOS ® ®
Table of Contents Getting the Most Out of Your Zip Drive .......................... 1 Operating Your Zip Drive ................................................. 3 Zip Tips ............................................................................ 4 Iomega Tools Software ...................................................... 5 Special Information for Windows NT Users ..................... 6 Special Information for Windows 95 Users ....................... 9 Special Information for Windows/DOS Users ........
Welcome to Zip Drive! Getting the Most Out of Your Zip Drive! Your Zip drive gives you high capacity, high performance storage. It's like having a hard disk upgrade, mobile storage, and a backup drive all in one easy solution. With your Zip drive you can: Expand your computer storage – 100MB at a time ... Move your work to different locations and computers (if they also have Zip drives) ... Back up your hard disk or any other disk drive on your system quickly and easily ... Create a multimedia library ...
Here’s how to get the most from your Zip drive … 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 Extend Your Hard Disk (hard disk upgrade alternative) Are you constantly running out of hard disk space? Your Zip drive and disks give you increased storage and easy access to all your information with hard-disk-like performance.
Operating Your Zip Drive Disk Eject Button / Green Busy Light (Flashes when drive is transferring data or when inserting or ejecting a disk) Inserting and Removing Zip Disks Insert Gently! ® Disk Inserted ls o To Eject Button / Green Busy Light Always turn on power to the computer before inserting a Zip disk. When you insert a Zip disk, the drive busy light will flash momentarily and go out. (If the light continues to blink slowly, push the disk eject button to eject the Zip disk, then reinsert it.
Drive Sleep The Zip drive has an automatic sleep mode designed to reduce power consumption and prolong the life of Zip disks. Sleep mode automatically spins down a disk after 15 minutes of inactivity, and the disk automatically spins up again when accessed. You can change the sleep mode time using your Iomega Tools software. Disk Eject in Case of Power Loss The computer must be powered on for normal disk ejection from the Zip drive.
Iomega Tools Software M IMPORTANT: The 100MB “tools” disk included with your Zip drive contains files needed for installing or reinstalling your Tools software. Avoid deleting the installation files for your system. M Read/Write Protecting Zip Disks Your Tools software includes a special read/write protect feature that lets you: • Write Protect a Zip disk through software instead of with a mechanical write protect switch.
Special Information for Windows NT Users How to Install or Reinstall Iomega Software M IMPORTANT! You must have administrator privileges for your local computer in order to install software drivers under Windows NT. You must also have administrator privileges for your computer to run the ToolsNT utilities. M To install your Iomega software, insert the 100MB “tools” disk that came with your system into the Zip drive, and insert the Iomega Install diskette for Windows NT into the computer’s floppy drive.
6. After Windows NT reboots, run SetupNT again from the Install diskette to install the ToolsNT software package. M IMPORTANT! If the SetupNT program still cannot locate the “tools” disk, refer to the NTReadme.txt file on the Install diskette for instructions on manually installing the driver. M Installing Iomega Software under Windows NT 3.51: 1. Run a:\setupnt.exe from the Windows NT Install diskette.
Microsoft Disk Copy Utilities When copying disks in the Zip drive, do not use Microsoft DISKCOPY.EXE or the CopyDisk utility that is available when you right mouse click on the Zip drive icon. These utilities only work correctly with floppy drives. Zip ATAPI Disk Eject If a disk does not eject from the Zip ATAPI drive, one of the following suggestions should solve the problem: • Close any windows listing the disk contents (such as My Computer or Windows Explorer).
Special Information for Windows 95 Users How to Install or Reinstall Iomega Software To install Iomega software, you need both the 100MB “tools” disk that came with your system and the Iomega Install diskette for Windows 95. You may need to run Setup.exe twice from the Install diskette – once to install drivers for the Zip ATAPI drive, the second time to install Tools 95 software. M Reinstalling Windows 95: If you reinstall Windows 95, you must also reinstall Iomega Tools 95 software.
6. The Settings windows will tell you the current drive letter for the Zip ATAPI drive. To set a specific drive letter for the Zip drive, select the desired drive letter in the dialog box for “Start drive letter." Note that the same drive letter should appear in the dialog box for “End drive letter.” M NOTE: If "Reserved drive letters" is grayed out, it is probably because your Zip drive is being detected in BIOS.
Windows 95 DOS Mode Operation of the Zip ATAPI drive under Windows 95 DOS mode is not fully supported at this time. Until full support is available, you must perform a clean reboot when switching to or from DOS mode in order for the Zip drive to operate properly. To switch to DOS mode: (1) Restart the computer and press F8 at the prompt "Starting Windows 95." (2) When the menu appears, select "Command Prompt Only." (3) After the system boots into DOS mode, insert a Zip disk in the Zip ATAPI drive.
DOS Users (Windows not installed): 1. Insert the 100MB Tools disk that came with your system into the Zip drive. 2. Insert the Windows/DOS “Install” diskette into the computer’s floppy drive. 3. At the DOS prompt, type a:guest if the Install diskette is in drive a: (or b:guest if it is in drive b:). 4. Press Enter and note the drive letter Guest assigns to your Zip drive. 5. At the DOS prompt type: d:\dosstuff\install (use the Zip drive letter in place of d:), then press Enter. 6.
Windows Format Utility Do not use the format utility available in the Windows File Manager to format Zip disks. Open the Tools program available in the Iomega Tools group and use the Iomega format utility (either short or long format). Installing Applications to the Zip Drive Certain applications and games will install only to a fixed disk. To install these programs to the Zip drive, use the Iomega Tools "Make Nonremovable" or "Lock" utility to make the Zip drive appear as a hard drive to the system.
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