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Bad Cartridge
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William J. Burlingame
2004-06-06 17:14:58 UTC
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I have a USB 250 MB Zip drive and I recently had a cartridge fail. I
use it to save some critical data files. The cartridge failed and
when it's in the drive, the system hangs when I try to look at it with
"My Computer" in WinXP Pro. I also tried it on a Win98SE system.
Other cartridges work fine. I thought I could reformat it, but it
won't format. It just hangs.
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Eric
2004-06-07 10:17:00 UTC
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Post by William J. Burlingame
I have a USB 250 MB Zip drive and I recently had a cartridge fail. I
use it to save some critical data files. The cartridge failed and
when it's in the drive, the system hangs when I try to look at it with
"My Computer" in WinXP Pro. I also tried it on a Win98SE system.
Other cartridges work fine. I thought I could reformat it, but it
won't format. It just hangs.
Do other cartridges work ok? Can you hear the drive spin-up when the
cartridge is inserted? Does it click?

Eric
William J. Burlingame
2004-06-07 11:18:05 UTC
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Post by Eric
Post by William J. Burlingame
I have a USB 250 MB Zip drive and I recently had a cartridge fail. I
use it to save some critical data files. The cartridge failed and
when it's in the drive, the system hangs when I try to look at it with
"My Computer" in WinXP Pro. I also tried it on a Win98SE system.
Other cartridges work fine. I thought I could reformat it, but it
won't format. It just hangs.
Do other cartridges work ok? Can you hear the drive spin-up when the
cartridge is inserted? Does it click?
Eric
Yes, other cartridges work and it does spin up. I'm not noticing any
click now, but I did earlier. That's what called my attention to the
problem. I kept hearing it spinning up over and over before I used it
the other day.

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