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by cluseau1

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How do you force your Zip Drive to accept Floppy B assignment. Zip drive keeps jumping drive assignments even when I use D or F. I managed to get my pc to accept Bfloppy but don't remember how I did it. I have downloaded the newest drivers and still have problems on customers PC's. My pc still maintains Floppy B. Whaddya think?

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by thechas

Since the ZIP drive connects as an IDE, and not a floppy device, by default, Windows wants to assign it a upper drive letter.

On the PCs where the ZIP drive jumps around, are the uses connecting to network drives?
Unless forced to a specific letter, Windows will assign letters to hard drive devices in the order that drivers are loaded.

There is a link to a drive letter assignment utility from www.aumha.org
While I have not used the utility myself, those who have report that it works very well.

Chas

by cluseau1

I have been able to force a upper drive letter but the zip drive keeps malfunctioning. I replaced it with a new one and still have the same problem. It works very well as B Floppy assignment but would rather assign the proper drive letter E or F. Will try your utility and see if it works. thanks

by opatzg9

When assigning the drive are you loading it as:
guest drive=B
?
Anoother thing to look at is to make sure you are only loading the ASPI drivers which you should be loading they are set in the guest.ini file. Look at your guesthlp.txt (came on the install diskette) and it will tell you which one to use for your zipdrive and operating system.
I've also seen some errors where the zipdrive is loaded as 2 drives and this is reported to always make your zipdrive unreliable so make sure you get it down to 1 drive. If you don't have the guesthlp.txt email me and I'll zip it and send it to you.

Good luck

by cglrcng9

First off, go to; www.iomega.com and download the newest proper software for the model IDE ZIP drive for your system & OS. It has a drive letter manager in it now. Then make sure you don't have a floppy drive entered in your system BIOS for "B" Drive, set it to other IDE or the appropriate drive. Then go to "My Computer" and right click on the drive letter that is recognized as your ZIP, click properties, then click on "Drive Letter Manager" tab and assign the appropriate drive letter you wish it to be along w/ your other IDE devices. Also check to make sure there isn't a floppy still on "B" showing there.

Good Luck.

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