Zip drive problems

If by "proper drivers" you mean the original ones that came with the drive, visit the vendor's site and get the latest PARTICULARLY if you now use a newer Operating System. Friend of mine noticed same problem going from Win98 to ME....

Good luck.

Additionally, if you put it on the same ide channel as the hard drive, it may reduce the perfoprmance of the hard drive.

If you have MS-Office installed, check to see if Find Fast is running. If it is end it and see if this helps. If it does, you can remove it from the startup folder.

I assumeing this is an internal zip drive? Try changing the drive to the same channel as your CD-ROM (usally the seconadry channel)
The Zip drive is a PIO 3 or 4 depending on how new your drive is. I'm guessing that you have this attached to the primary channel that your hard drive is using, and if its a Ultra DMA 33/66 or 100 your automatically slowing it down to the lowest comman denominator.(the PIO 3 or 4)

The Iomega software also loads some TSRs that run every time you boot. They watch for any activity directed to the ZIP drive. Totally unnecessary. Remove them.

All good posts, I thought i would add a link to the following site that has a nice utility for checking the condition of Zip,Iomega drives and data. Also lots of other very useful info .

http://grc.com/clickdeath.htm

Refer to the following website for detail troubleshooting information:

http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/2136.html

Good Luck

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