- Iomega is a producer of consumer external, portable and networking storage hardware. Established in the 1980s, Iomega has sold more than 400 million digital storage drives and disks. Recently purchased by EMC in June 2008, Iomega has become the SOHO/SMB arm of the world’s largest storage company.
- This driver package for Iomega Zip 100 drives will work on most versions of Windows, except 95 and NT (see above). The package contains additional software needed for using and managing Iomega Zip drives (it is officially called IomegaWare).
- Iomega Zip® 100MB USB Powered external drive. Www.iomega.com, usb100. The ZIP drive is not unknown for many users. More than one million of them and several times more media have been sold all over the world. Some applications are provided on ZIP media instead of CDs.
IOMega ZIP
ZIP disks gained some popularity in home computer use, and ZIP drives were installed even in some Apple Macintosh computers by manufacturer. They became quite popular 'larger floppy', and even some scientific imaging devices had ZIP drives built-in. Included software offered ease of use - to use ZIP drive in a new computer, for example to show some images or presentation, it was needed only to run one program. Driver installed itself and opened a new drive letter for drive. ZIP drives could be attached to parallel port, SCSI (there were combo versions - SCSI and parallel, depending of cable installed) or IDE (ATAPI - early pure-IDE versions are very rare), and later units had USB capabilities. After USB flash drives came to market, IOMega released 750MB ZIP, but it was too late for it and 750MB ZIP never gained popularity.
The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was introduced by Iomega in late 1994. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and then 750 MB. My 100 drive is a USB drive. Iomega's site says the following about that qualified for 32-bit Windows 7: 'Zip® Drives: Zip® 100MB, 250MB or 750MB USB, ATAPI, FireWire or SCSI drives should work with native Windows 7 drivers.
Iomega Zip Drive Drivers Download
Unfortunately ZIP drives were prone to click-of-death failures. These failures (their mechanism is described in FAQ) could cause data and media loss. Branding portable ZIP-like drive 'IOMega Click!' was not a good idea when these problems came out :).
Iomega Zip 100 Drive Drivers
| Manufacturer: IOMega | ||||||
| Type: Disks and drive | ||||||
| Capacity: 100MB, 250MB | ||||||
| To run ZIP drive, you must have ZIP Tools or ZIP Guest driver. IOMega released drivers in packages, so usually ZIP 250 driver package contain older driver for 100, and it may contain even drivers for IDE, ATAPI or parallel port drives. IOMegaware is a big package containing nearly all drivers. Zip Tools is a full suite of software, while ZIP Guest is a simple DOS driver only to run ZIP drive and access files. There are also Win95 versions of Guest tool. Under DOS, you usually run guest with paraleter letter, like: Unfortunately IOMega can't go along with download links on their own website, they change it frequently and make dead links in support pages, especially for older platforms, so I have to waste my hosting bandwidth and put here essentials which allow to use ZIP with old computers.
There are some alternative drivers such as commercial PalmZip, which can work under DOS with very old computers (8086). | ||||||
Notice difference between ZIP 100 and 250MB in reflective surface (250MB on the right). Record=it was a sound streaming application which allowed to record sound directly to a ZIP disk.
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