Iomega Zip 100 USB Drive wont work with Windows 7?

Hi,

I'm having real problems installing my Iomega Zip 100 drive on my Win7 machine.. I've tried installing the drivers and that totaled my machine, I had to return to a save point etc.

After googling it seems other people cant use the zip drive with Win7.. WTF

I really need this shit so I can use my MPC, Is anyone else using it with Win7?

Help me out if you can, Cheers.

Luke

No problems here with my 64 bit.
Never needed any drivers either.

Does your w7 recognise the drive at all?
Does the drive make any noise? You will need a disk in for it to show up, first off.

Word, Yes the machine recognises it as a drive.. then asks me to format the drive even if there is stuff on the disk.

I try to format it and it doesnt work.. Any ideas?

Perhaps your disk is in a format that windows can't use.
Can you try a brand new blank disk and see how that works?

Hmm, I tried one from the pack of new ones.. the normal ones dont work, they say they need scanning and fixing. BUT the one labeled 'tools' was readable! it had some file archiving software from iomega on.

So does the akai format the disks? I've got some that came with the MPC that ive been saving samples too, I obviously wanna be able to drag wavs onto the disks and then get the akai to read..

If your computer is finding fault with brand new disks
then that sounds like a real problem (in your computer). You shouldn't have needed to install any drivers as the USB Zip drive should be plug and play. I tried both zip 100 and 250 on my w7 without issue.
Are any other USB devices playing up? eg USB flash drive.


Yes the MPC formats disks
[ but, ....
I'd recommend not putting your MPC disks in the computer as it can alter them and make them unreadable. eg. if your file names are longer than 8 characters it may shorten them with the result that your programs can't find their associated files.
If you want to transfer wave files from your computer to the mpc, keep a seperate disk as a transfer disk and only use that to transfer files before saving to your mpc disks.]

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*Pilchard* , do you use mpc editor at windows 7 ?

I'm on win7 too (32 bit on the laptop at home and 64 bit on the studio machine) and I'm using MPC Editor V3 on both machines.
win 7 is not listed as compatible but the program just works. Luckily.