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Access logically damaged ZipDisk drive?

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by rhanlon2

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Help! I backed up my mail archive to my 250-Mb ZipDisk drive, then re-installed NT-4.0 to clear a corrupt registry. Had to re-install the ZipDisk driver after NT came back. Should have removed the Zip cartridge, but didn't... Whoops! Reinstalling the driver damaged the zipdisk initialization, & now the Zipdrive won't let this particular cartridge come "ready." All other cartridges work just fine. Tried to use Norton DiskDoctor, but DD uses the standard ZipDrive software & so can't access the logically (not physically) damaged cartridge. Is there some way I can tell the Zip drive to "access that thing anyway"?
-Bob Hanlon-

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by timp999

Give Partition Magic a try. It partitions disks without destroying data. You can get a demo at www.powerquest.com. You can also try a download called Partition Manager. I have not used this tool, but it's highly rated.

Good luck!

by rhanlon2

One fundamental problem with all these otherwise very useful utilities: They access the Zip disk thru the standard IOmega device driver, which is the main roadblock here. Device driver takes one peek at the damaged disk header & stops dead. I need away to bypass that device driver & take in "whatever" the disk has on it.

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