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User's Guide
• Getting the Most out of Your Zip Drive
• Operating Your Zip Drive
• Zip Tips
• Iomega Tools Software
• Special Information for Windows NT
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  • Page 1 User’s Guide • Getting the Most out of Your Zip Drive • Operating Your Zip Drive • Zip Tips • Iomega Tools Software • Special Information for Windows NT ® Windows 95, and Windows /DOS ®...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Getting the Most Out of Your Zip Drive ......1 Operating Your Zip Drive ..........3 Zip Tips ................4 Iomega Tools Software ............5 Special Information for Windows NT Users ..... 6 Special Information for Windows 95 Users ....... 9...

  • Page 3: Getting The Most Out Of Your Zip Drive

    Welcome to Zip Drive! Getting the Most Out of Your Zip Drive! Your Zip drive gives you high capacity, high performance storage. It's like having a hard disk upgrade, mobile storage, and a backup drive all in one easy solution. With your Zip drive you can: Expand your computer storage –...
  • Page 4 Here’s how to get the most from your Zip drive … Extend Your Hard Disk (hard disk upgrade alternative) Are you constantly running out of hard disk space? Your Zip drive and disks give you increased storage and easy access to all your information with hard-disk-like performance.

  • Page 5: Operating Your Zip Drive

    Operating Your Zip Drive Use your Zip drive just like any other drive on your system. To access the Zip drive, insert a disk and select the Zip disk icon or drive letter. Store and copy files to and from the Zip drive using the same methods you use for other drives on your system.

  • Page 6: Zip Tips

    15 minutes of inactivity, and the disk automatically spins up again when accessed. You can change the sleep mode time using your Iomega Tools software. Disk Eject in Case of Power Loss The computer must be powered on for normal disk ejection from the Zip drive.

  • Page 7: Iomega Tools Software

    The 100MB Zip "tools" disk contains a complete package of software tools designed to help you take advantage of all the features of your Zip drive. If Iomega Tools are not already set up on your computer, you need to install them using the instructions in the “Special Information” section for your operating system.

  • Page 8: Special Information For Windows Nt Users

    ToolsNT utilities. To install your Iomega software, insert the 100MB “tools” disk that came with your system into the Zip drive, and insert the Iomega Install diskette for Windows NT into the computer’s floppy drive. You may need to run SetupNT.exe twice from the Install diskette –...
  • Page 9 Click the down arrow next to the window for “Select SCSI Adapter Option” to open the adapter list. Scroll down the list of adapters and select the Iomega Zip IDE / ATAPI driver. Click the “Install” button. Choose “Current” in the Windows NT dialog box. Windows NT will then add the necessary driver to the list of installed adapters found by the operating system.
  • Page 10 Windows Explorer). • The Iomega Zip ATAPI driver may not have loaded correctly. Try reinstalling the driver following the instructions on page 6 or page 7. If the disk still does not eject immediately, it may be due to the way Windows NT handles disk caching.

  • Page 11: Special Information For Windows 95 Users

    Windows 95 Users How to Install or Reinstall Iomega Software To install Iomega software, you need both the 100MB “tools” disk that came with your system and the Iomega Install diskette for Windows 95. You may need to run Setup.exe twice from the Install diskette – once to install drivers for the Zip ATAPI drive, the second time to install Tools 95 software.
  • Page 12 The Settings windows will tell you the current drive letter for the Zip ATAPI drive. To set a specific drive letter for the Zip drive, select the desired drive letter in the dialog box for “Start drive letter." Note that the same drive letter should appear in the dialog box for “End drive letter.”...

  • Page 13: Special Information For Windows/Dos Users

    Zip disk in the Zip ATAPI drive. (4) Run GUEST.EXE from the Zip "Install" floppy diskette or from the "Tools_95" folder on drive C. This procedure will provide access to any Iomega drives on the system. To return to the Windows 95 graphical interface, restart the computer.
  • Page 14 DOS Users (Windows not installed): Insert the 100MB Tools disk that came with your system into the Zip drive. Insert the Windows/DOS “Install” diskette into the computer’s floppy drive. At the DOS prompt, type if the Install diskette is in drive a: a:guest b:guest if it is in drive b:).
  • Page 15 Windows Format Utility Do not use the format utility available in the Windows File Manager to format Zip disks. Open the Tools program available in the Iomega Tools group and use the Iomega format utility (either short or long format).
  • Page 16 European support numbers. © 1997 Iomega Corporation. Iomega and the Iomega logo are registered trademarks of, and Zip and the graphic swirl, hand and eye are trademarks of, Iomega Corporation. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.