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christiancrowley

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Greetings, my situation is similar to other posts I've seen on this forum. After reading through those posts, I'm still stuck.

I would like to get some data off several zip drives. I have an iomega zip drive that appears to be working (light comes on and it spins up when I insert a disk). I have an XP laptop.

I've tried connecting the zip drive to the XP laptop using the following parallel-to-USB connector:

KINGMAS USB to DB25 IEEE-1284 Parallel Printer Adapter Cable

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WHDGGQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

When I plugged in the USB, my laptop told me that it had installed new printing software. As far as I can tell, the laptop doesn't recognize the zip drive, as nothing shows up under My Computer.

Please let me know if you have any ideas for me to try.

Thanks in advance for any advice!
 
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Solandri
Iomega's original Zip drive support pages specifically mention Windows XP so it seems like it should in fact work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030611091650/http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10127.html

Make sure your parallel port is set to EPP mode. ECP mode is for printers, EPP for bidirectional peripherals like drives.

There's a chance it won't work with a parallel-to-USB adapter. There were a specific set of I/O addresses used for built-in parallel ports (378 in the page I linked above is one). If the drive is only programmed to work with certain addresses and the USB adapter doesn't provide those, it might not work.

Edit: Now I kinda want to dig out my old SCSI Zip drive out of storage. The only copy of my grad...
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Iomega's original Zip drive support pages specifically mention Windows XP so it seems like it should in fact work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030611091650/http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10127.html

Make sure your parallel port is set to EPP mode. ECP mode is for printers, EPP for bidirectional peripherals like drives.

There's a chance it won't work with a parallel-to-USB adapter. There were a specific set of I/O addresses used for built-in parallel ports (378 in the page I linked above is one). If the drive is only programmed to work with certain addresses and the USB adapter doesn't provide those, it might not work.

Edit: Now I kinda want to dig out my old SCSI Zip drive out of storage. The only copy of my grad thesis is on a Zip disk somewhere in storage...
 
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