reading from Zip drive 100 / plug and play? or...

(Hi to all you mpc forummers, my name is Edwin, I am new here since I recently purchased an MPC. I own a MC-505 for many years which I mostly use to create my tunes. With the MPC... I'dd like to sample some of my work, enchange/retouch the samples, and mix it with some other sounds. And maybe use the MPC as seqencer too.)

Ok, here's my question....

-I have a extenal ZIP drive (100 iomega)

-I sampled some of my beats on to the MPC2000XL, and saved them on ZIP as SND's some WAV's.

-Now I would like to have them om my PC to edit them / add some more samples.

-If I connect the zipdrive to my PC it asks me if I want to format it because its not formatted currently.
Is this correct?

Yes that's right. Format it on the PC before writing anything to it and you're good.

Thanks for the reply,

Ok. So the MPC can write/read from a zip that is formatted on a PC. But a PC can not read/write from a zip that is formatted on a MPC. Am I right?


I dit not install any drivers for the drive on the pc, XP came up with found hardware.... is that enough?

I still am not able to format a disk on PC.

I get a read error on the MPC as well sometimes... may be a zip with bad sectors on it?

Norphe wrote:Ok. So the MPC can write/read from a zip that is formatted on a PC. But a PC can not read/write from a zip that is formatted on a MPC. Am I right?

Yes, it seems to be that way. I have no idea what drivers XP needs for a ZIP drive. There are drivers available from iomega though. If it doesn't format, it's either a bad disk or a bad drive.