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win 2000 pro and adding a iomega zip

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by zlitocook

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Added a zip drive to the hd ide cable and the software does not see the cdrw. At boot up all the drives are listed but after I only see the floppy and hard drive. Tryed add new hardware and reinstalling the software for the cdrw. Tryed removing the cable from the zip and used q126380 from MS to trouble shoot cdrom.

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by tpike

Iomega internal zip drives have a little quirk that causes a problem for some CD Rom drives. You did not mention what was master/slave on what connector cable. Iomega recommends that a zip drive be the master and any CD Rom drive on the same ide connector be connected as a slave. If the zip drive is on your master cable (with the hard drive), you might try switching it to the slave ide connector (with the slave set as master and CDRW as a slave). Also, after installing the drives, go into your BIOS. If the drives do not show up in the setup itself, you have a deeper problem or at least a misconfiguration with the hardware. Good Luck!

by zlitocook

I tryed all your suggestions still not working. I will defrag the computer with a 5lb hammer and build the user a HP computer. I have used these with the drives with no problems.

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