Windows 7 zip drive

I previously used a Promise Ultra card but it does not work with Windows 7. I tried the Windows Vista 64 drivers because in some cases, those work for some devices, but it gave an error message that it could not start.

I called Promise and they said that was a known problem but they don't have drivers for Win7 for that card and don't plan on having any. In other words, go find another card.

If there is another card, I don't know about it. There may be some compatibility issues but right now, I don't know what that may be.

The 2 port versions may help you, but i don't know what chip set they use. According to their website, they are sold by a store about 1 mile from my house.

Didn't know they existed tucked in a back corner. I'll stop by in the morning and see what they have. I only saw one card with PCI-E and that is the single channel card you mentioned. If that one port 2 devices works with the motherboard's 2 devices, that would be sufficient. Just FYI and another thing to consider, is that these Iomega Zip Drives are really old, haven't been manufactured for decades, and are notorious for dieing.

If you have really valuable data on the zip disks I suggest backing it up onto a hard drive or external. That drive is nearing end-of-life usage. IS a zip drive and WIN7 compatible? Have you actually used it in WIN7 beyond it just being recognized? It is ancient tech and V. I would get it going once xp? Corned beef is now made to a higher standard than at any time in history. The electronic components of the power part adopted a lot of Rubycons. Also a MB Photoshow one from Iomega.

I haven't tried any with W7, but they worked with XP. I mostly used mine with a Amiga and a PowerMac computer. In their day they were a good storage device, but I would also move any data off them to something more modern. I think inexpensive USB flash drives pretty much killed them. I think it is beyond just the Zip drive. I got the Startech card anaboland said to try and it had similar strange results.

Strange things go on. Sometimes the DVD writer shows up correctly sometimes it shows up as a different drive letter which you cannot change and it does not have the correct name. According to the Iomega site, the Zip drive should work with Win 7. This drive worked great under XP Pro. I have Zip drives in 2 other computers and I guess I can use them to get files off as I need them and move them to the main computer via the network.

However, something is going on with this system that I can't seem to put my finger on. It was a clean fresh install and I haven't added anything other than the drives I stated above.

I have not loaded any software other than Windows, yet. I won't add any apps stuff until the OS in working correctly. I did load Promise drivers for Vista, thinking that would work but since I took the card out, maybe my next step is to try and remove those drivers if I can figure out where they are and how to do that.

Sort of obvious, but did you make sure the jumpers on the zip and optical drives are set correctly, master and slave?

That can cause odd problems. W7 has most drivers already. But you can uninstall drivers in the Device Manager. The jumpers on the drives are set correctly and I tried with several combinations.

I put the motherboard CD into the computer and it loaded all the stuff from the CD. That comes up the first thing when turning on. It has a timeout feature or you can exit it and it starts the normal POST and boot sequence. I always click bypass but may just install it.

I checked the "installed" programs in Control Panel and Promise was not listed. Once again, booting up this morning, The individual drives show up in the BIOS for each card and all drives are shown with correct names. If I go to Device Manager, under disk drives, All drives are listed, including the Zip drive and they all show as working correctly. They are all using a driver from Win7.

However, they do not show up in My computer or in Disk Manager. So, Windows OS knows they are there but does not assign them a letter to be used. That is what I do not understand. They show up in Device Manager as working correctly. Also, currently, It takes forever to do a Shutdown. I give up and shut it off. It didn't do that a couple days ago. It shut down quickly. Well, I decided to go back to ground one with minimum attachments.

I got everything working correctly adding one at a time, except the Zip Drive. It even shuts down quickly, now. New models are backwards compatible with smaller size disks.

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