Using Zip®
Disks
Use only genuine 100MB* Zip®
disks with your Zip drive.
This section describes some of the things you can do
with Zip disks.
* 100MB where 1MB=1 million
bytes. The capacity reported by your operating system
may vary.
CAUTION! 250MB Zip®
disks do not work in the Zip® 100 Parallel Port drive.
Backing
Up with Zip® Disks
Always keep current backups of your valuable datawhether
the primary data is stored on your hard drive or Zip®
disks. You can use Zip disks to back up both. See Copying
Zip Disks for information on how to make backup
copies of your Zip disks.
You can also back up important data files by using
your system's standard procedures to copy the files
to your Zip® drive.
For example, if your operating system is Windows®
95/98, you can use My Computer or Windows® Explorer to select files or folders from your hard
drive and drag and drop them on your Zip drive. One
advantage of copying files directly to your Zip drive
is that you can access them easily any time you need
them without running a restore procedure.
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Copying
Zip® Disks
The simplest way to copy your Zip®
disks is with Iomega's Copy Disk tool. This
tool duplicates Zip disks using a single Zip drive.
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Insert the disk you want to copy into your Zip®
drive.
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Right click the Zip®
drive icon in My Computer or Windows® Explorer.
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Select the Iomega Copy Disk tool (indicated with
the stylized "i" logo) from the drive
shortcut menu.
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Follow the onscreen instructions in the Copy Disk
tool. If you need additional information, click
the help button.
NOTE: The Iomega
Copy Disk tool cannot copy files that are open or in
use at the time the copy is made.
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Read/Write
Protecting Zip®
Disks
IomegaWare
software includes a special read/write protect feature
that allows you to:
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Write protect a disk through software instead of
with a mechanical write protect switch.
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Write protect a disk and assign a password so that
no one can add, edit, or delete files without entering
the password first.
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Read/Write protect a disk so that it cannot be
read from, or written to, unless the user enters
the password you assign.
Instructions for Setting Zip®
Disk Protection:
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Insert the disk you want to protect into your Zip®
drive.
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Open My Computer and right click on the
Zip® drive icon.
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Select Protect from the drive shortcut menu.
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Choose the protection option you want to use. Click
the Help button if you need information on
any of the options.
NOTE: Although
Zip® disk protection
options are set and removed using IomegaWare
software, the actual protection mechanism is secured
in the drive hardware. This means the disk protection
cannot be bypassed using other software programs.
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Formatting
Zip® Disks
Zip® disks are
available preformatted. You can format your Zip disks
to quickly erase all of the files on the disk, change
the format type, or to repair a disk that has developed
bad sectors.
CAUTION! Formatting
a disk erases all data on the disk. Do not format
any disk that contains information you want to keep!
Formatting instructions:
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Insert the disk you want to format into your Zip®
drive.
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Right click on the Zip®
drive icon in My Computer or Windows® Explorer.
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Select Format from the drive shortcut menu.
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Choose the format type:
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Use Short Format if you want to quickly
erase all data on a disk so you can reuse it.
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Use Long Format if you are formatting
a disk where you have forgotten the password,
or if you need to repair a disk that has developed
read/write errors due to bad sectors.
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Use either option to change the format type from
Mac® to PC.
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Click Start to start formatting the Zip®
disk.
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Using
Zip® Disks
Cross-Platform
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PC systems cannot read a Mac®-formatted
disk unless special software is installed on the
system. If you try to use a Mac-formatted disk on
a PC that does not have disk exchange software installed,
you will see a message indicating that the disk
is not formatted.
You can change a Mac®-formatted
disk to a PC-formatted disk by using IomegaWare
software on a PC to erase the disk.
CAUTION! Formatting
a disk erases all data on the disk. Do not format
any disk that contains information you want to keep!
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