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Compressing an Iomega ZIP disk
Name: Don McPeters Date: February 7, 1999 at 21:56:57 Pacific
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I recently purchased a Gateway PC with an internal Iomega ZIP drive. I wish to use some of the ZIP disks for storage of photos (.jpg, .bmp. files, etc.), and .wav files. Recently I was going through the many options on the menus and noticed that there was a disk compression utility. Has anyone had any experience with compressing a ZIP disk? Should you compress it before you write any data to it or can you compress it anytime - even after storing data on it. I know of the horror stories that go along with compressing a hard drive and am a bit leary of doing any kind of disk compression at all! Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Name: endefectur Date: February 8, 1999 at 04:31:53 Pacific
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i think winzip is easier, download at most any shareware site.
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Response Number 2
Name: Craig Beck Date: May 20, 1999 at 17:38:05 Pacific
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You can compress any disk whilst it holds data. I have an internal ZIP drive and several media, all of which hold graphics. I compressed these to hold double the original amount of data (200MB).
Just explore the disk at its root in explorer and click the right-mouse button. Choose compression from the options you are given and follow the instructions.
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Response Number 3
Name: Nick Steinbaugh Date: December 3, 1999 at 21:34:49 Pacific
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At one time, I compressed all of my zip disks. Afterward, I noticed Iomega didn't recommend this. Then, the drive clicked repetedly when trying to access disks. I contacted Iomega and they said that the compression had damaged my drive, and thus all my disks. They did replace them, but only with a refurbished zip drive with a 3-month warranty. I do NOT recommend compressing any zip disks.
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Response Number 4
Name: Jade Date: January 2, 2000 at 03:25:39 Pacific
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Help!! I unknowingly backed up files on my zip drive that were compressed. Now I can't read it. What do I do?
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Response Number 5
Name: Jasmina Date: April 14, 2000 at 13:37:18 Pacific
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I want to know general thinks about disc like iomega. Please write me. Yours Jasmina
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