Windows 10: Iomega Zip Drive not working with Windows 10 - a possible solution.

I had a similar problem that others have had with Iomega Zip drives not working with Windows 10 and threads to user issues are locked so I thought I would add a solution that worked for me here.


My device is an Iomega USB Zip 250 with its own power supply.

It was working on an XP desktop but not on a Windows 10 laptop.

The device would appear on 'control panel - devices and printers' and in 'device manager' as a disk drive.

The device properties indicated that it was working properly.

However, in 'file explorer' it would either not exist or be inaccessible.


This is what worked for me:-

Open 'Device Manager' (Cortana search).

Expand 'Disk drives' (click the > symbol).

Open properties for the Iomega device (double click).

Click the 'Policies' tab.

Under 'Removal policy' check 'Better performance'.

Under 'Write-caching policy' check 'Enable write caching'.

Under 'Write-caching policy' check 'Turn off Windows write-cache buffer'.

Click the 'OK' button.


After the above steps the Zip drive appeared in file explorer as a normal USB storage device.

My thoughts are that the Zip drive itself was powering down to an inaccessible hibernation mode after initialisation but with caching switched on the zip disk and its files become available in this mode.

:)

 

Iomega 100 zip drive with windows 10

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zip driver at all. I saw some community message suggesting an old Windows version might work with Zip drive. I got out an old Toshiba running Windows XP and conned the driver to it, same thing. The PC actually acknowledges the plug in of a Printer (probably
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Thanks.

 

Iomega 100 zip drive with windows 10

OLD ZIP 100.

I just install my old iomega Zip 100 on my windows 10 server amog all kind of hard, floppy, CD/DVD and now Zip.

Use your IDE socket in the mother board and plug the power.

If you have by chance the external Zip drive (blue box) then use a cable parallel to serie (big long connector to small blue multypin connector (the kind used for VGA monitors) if you have an old mother board, you may have a parallel connector at the back
of your PC.

 

Iomega 100 zip drive with windows 10

This one maybe? see
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