Disk not detected in drive

[David Hare-Scott]

Running Windows 2000 Pro SP3 I have just installed an IDE Iomega Zip 100
drive. The BIOS recognises that it's there, Windows Device Manager/Disk
drives/ says it's there and working properly and Windows Explorer
recognises it as a removable drive.

When I boot I get a popup saying drive DR1 has no disk in it, if I put a
zip disk in and say try again it still doesn't see the disk.

If I insert a zip disk and try to access it through Windows explorer (or
any other way) I can hear the zip drive spinning but no disk is
recognised in the drive. The zip disk worked fine in the same drive
when it was in another machine.

I suppose it is possible that the drive
or disk was damaged between removing from the previous machine and
installing it in the current one but this is unlikely as both were
packed carefully for transport.

David

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Post by David Hare-Scott
Running Windows 2000 Pro SP3 I have just installed an IDE Iomega Zip 100
drive. The BIOS recognises that it's there, Windows Device Manager/Disk
drives/ says it's there and working properly and Windows Explorer
recognises it as a removable drive.
When I boot I get a popup saying drive DR1 has no disk in it, if I put a
zip disk in and say try again it still doesn't see the disk.

It sounds like the BIOS is trying to control the Zip drive as a fixed
hard drive. Have you left the BIOS set to Auto where the Zip drive is
installed? Set it to "None" or "Not Installed", or if there is a
Zip-specific setting, you could try that too.

[David Hare-Scott]

Post by D***@ix.netcom.com

Post by David Hare-Scott
Running Windows 2000 Pro SP3 I have just installed an IDE Iomega Zip 100
drive. The BIOS recognises that it's there, Windows Device

Manager/Disk

Post by D***@ix.netcom.com

Post by David Hare-Scott
drives/ says it's there and working properly and Windows Explorer
recognises it as a removable drive.
When I boot I get a popup saying drive DR1 has no disk in it, if I put a
zip disk in and say try again it still doesn't see the disk.

It sounds like the BIOS is trying to control the Zip drive as a fixed
hard drive. Have you left the BIOS set to Auto where the Zip drive is
installed? Set it to "None" or "Not Installed", or if there is a
Zip-specific setting, you could try that too.

Many thanks for the tip.

My BIOS has a setting for Zip and None as well as Auto, so I tried both
of those. Same result in each case, windows recognises it as a zip
drive but doesn't see the disk in it.

I then noticed that having set it as Zip additional settings became
available for type with the options Auto, Floppy and HDD. By default it
is Auto which didn't work and nor did Floppy but setting it as HDD
works! How one is supposed to divine that the combination of Zip drive
with type HDD is required I wouldn't know as neither Microsoft nor
Iomega have anything about this sort of thing. To read the Iomega web
site you would think the only known difficulty with Windows 2000 is a
drive letter not being assigned.

Under the Zip settings it also allows me to set the PIO mode (0,1,2,3,4)
which will be best?

David

[D***@ix.netcom.com]

Post by David Hare-Scott
My BIOS has a setting for Zip and None as well as Auto, so I tried both
of those. Same result in each case, windows recognises it as a zip
drive but doesn't see the disk in it.
I then noticed that having set it as Zip additional settings became
available for type with the options Auto, Floppy and HDD. By default it
is Auto which didn't work and nor did Floppy but setting it as HDD
works! How one is supposed to divine that the combination of Zip drive
with type HDD is required I wouldn't know as neither Microsoft nor
Iomega have anything about this sort of thing. To read the Iomega web
site you would think the only known difficulty with Windows 2000 is a
drive letter not being assigned.

Some Zip drives can function as drive A: (or B:), and when in that
mode, the drive is accessed a bit differently. That's probably what
the HDD and Floppy BIOS settings are for. I suppose you would use
Floppy if you wanted the Zip to be A: (or B:), and you may need to
have the Zip drive jumpered for that mode as well. The HDD setting
would be for when the Zip uses any other letter (although the
nomenclature is rather confusing as it's still a removable drive).

Post by David Hare-Scott
Under the Zip settings it also allows me to set the PIO mode (0,1,2,3,4)
which will be best?

For a Zip 100, I suspect PIO 0. That seems to be what mine are using.