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Name: CHKDSK
Date: August 6, 2007 at 09:43:45 Pacific
OS: Windows 98SE
CPU/Ram: PIII 450 Mhz 512 MB Ram
Product: Dell XPST 450
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I really wasn't sure where to post this it has to do with several things. What im trying to do is make my Zip drive readable in DOS from a 98 bootdisk. The reason is so i can make a AVG rescue disk with the Zip disk. If i can get dos to see my Zip drive it should work. But the question is how can this be done? I downloaded a file from driverguide called Iomegazip54 i think thats the files i need to put on the 98 bootdisk. Am i correct? Please help me with this because the 98 machine has a terrible virus AVG detects it on bootup with the bootscanner. I have tried to make AVG boot CD'S but they didn't work. Please help me with this.

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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 6, 2007 at 09:54:07 Pacific
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How is the Zip drive connected to the machine?

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Response Number 2
Name: CHKDSK
Date: August 6, 2007 at 10:02:09 Pacific
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Its connected on the IDE cable with the CDROM. So its secoundary slave.

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Response Number 3
Name: Walter Mitty
Date: August 6, 2007 at 12:24:20 Pacific
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MS-DOS will recognise a ZIP IDE Drive, if on booting a ZIP Disk is already inserted, as a standard drive.



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Response Number 4
Name: CHKDSK
Date: August 6, 2007 at 19:26:54 Pacific
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I have no option in BIOS to boot to the ZIP drive. The BIOS will see the ZIP in IDE configuration. But its not a option to select as a boot device. I don't quite understand what you mean Walter as a standard drive. Im sorry its late here and my mind is tired.

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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: August 7, 2007 at 00:23:29 Pacific
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You need to download a file named
IODRV-DOS-X86-10.EXE. Download it to an empty directory and then run it. It'll extract to that directory. For a floppy disk you can delete autorun.exe as I guess that's for a cd. Copy the rest of the files to your bootdisk (not the original IODRV-DOS-X86-10.exe file).

Boot up with the bootdisk and at the a:\> prompt type guest and enter. It'll search for your zip drive and assign it a drive letter.


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Response Number 6
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: August 7, 2007 at 00:28:32 Pacific
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Here's a download site:

IODRV-DOS-X86-10.EXE



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Response Number 7
Name: CHKDSK
Date: August 7, 2007 at 09:31:47 Pacific
Reply:

A:\>guest

Iomega Guest driver version 6.0
Finding a drive letter for your Iomega drive
No drive letters were added.
A:\>

I tried both start with CD-Rom support and without CD-Rom support.
Yes the Zip drive IS secoundary Slave. And yes there was a zipdisk in the zip drive. Also this is a ZIP 100MB drive and a 100 MB zip disk. Im not sure what to do at this point. And i assumed you meant to but the extracted iodrv-dos-x86-10 files on the 98 bootdisk?
Well ok i had another idea. Format a floppy with system files. So i did that and at the A:\> i typed guest and it found my drive letter. Thanks so much for the help. Now i don't have to use 10 or more floppies. Will this kind of scan work with XP or a USB flash drive?

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Response Number 8
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: August 7, 2007 at 12:24:46 Pacific
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You're welcome. I'm glad you got it set up.

I don't understand what you did differently that made it work. Are you saying you added the extracted files to a regular 98 bootdisk and it didn't work? And then you tried a disk with just the system files and the extracted files and it worked?

If so it must be because of some of the drivers the bootdisk loads. A typical bootdisk loads some ASPI drivers and I noticed the zip files also had some. Perhaps they interfered with each other. The modified bootdisk I use disables the loading of the ASPI files anyway.

I've used the dos drivers for zip support when exiting windows into dos or using F8 to boot directly to dos. In each case the bootdisk ASPI files don't load.

Those drivers worked for me on internal and external drives connected through the parallel port. If you have dos USB support I suppose it'd work for those drives too. I believe XP would have native zip support even from a bootdisk setup.



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