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Hi,
I want to copy the boot diskette with the system MS DOS 7.1 to a paralell ZIP drive so that also all the system files are transfered to it.
This is because I wolud like to boot DOS from IOMEGA 250 ZIP drive.
How shall I do it?
Are there any DOS driver for paralell ZIP drives?Zennon
Since the parallel port requires a driver to access the Zip drive, how do you expect yo boot from it. An IDE Zip drive probably would be bootable.
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I used to have an IDE Iomega ZIP100 Drive that could indeed be setup as the primory 'Boot' Drive.
The internal ZIP drives connect to an IDE channel and operate in much the same way as a ATAPI CDROM. If your BIOS accommodates it, it can be set up as your A: Drive, in which case you can make it bootable.
But as wizard-fred says this is not possible with the plug-in Parallel version. You would need to have a 3½" Bootdisk with Iomega Guest.exe to run a parallel as your only working harddrive I should think.
So if you want it bootable - Buy an internal IDE Version!
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Thank you for your remarks.
Anyway I have seen yesterday a website saying that Palmtops may booted from external IOMEGA ZIP drives and there were special drivers attached to it.
And palmtops don't support internal IDE drives.
Maybe exists a solution for the problem?
Zennon
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And just one another question:
If I had the IDE ZIP drive how to format (=copy system files) the zip diskette so that it is bootable?
Zennon
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This software to boot from a Parallel Port Zip Drive is called ZppA
Please Visit
http://www.blueskyinnovations.com/zppa.html#Whatis
Zennon
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The ZppA System cheats in that it used the hard drive boot sector to store itself.
No hard drive, or no previously installed system and it will not boot.
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I think response 2 says it all re bootable internal Zip disks 'If your BIOS is capable' or if it is setup as your primory Drive C then it can be made bootable in the same way you would a harddrive.
I am not 100% (or even 50% for that matter!) sure but I think a SCSI External Zip Drive 'may' even work as a bootable device. You would need to do a GOOGLE search for more information on both IDE & SCSI versions.
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Another option is to boot from a DOS floppy, load the Iomega zip dos driver, then pass control to the Iomega Zip drive.
If this solution will work for you, let me know and I will provide you with the exact DOS commands on how to do it.
-Michael
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