Iomega Zip or Jazz drive in Windows 7

Has anyone tried using an Iomega Zip or Jazz disk with W7?

I work in graphics and ocassionally have to pull info from one of these formats.

Looking at the Iomega site lists support for XP. . . no mention of any x64 platforms or even Vista.

I'm just trying to figure out how far to go in efforts of backwards compatability . . . at least I'm not looking to integrate a Bernoulli Drive.

Thanks in advance for any ideas,

RowZ

I've not used one of those drives for many years and I've not yet heard anyone else using one with Windows 7, so I'd be very interested to know if it works I think the only way you'll find out is to try - but I wouldn't be surprised if it does work right out of the box.

Thanks, Ian

I'll go ahead and give it a shot, but I'm more than a little skeptical as to the results.

I'll post procedure and outcome.

RowZ

Thanks RowZ, I look forward to seeing what happens

Hi there,

It all depends on the interface ! As long as you're using SCSI or USB ZIP or JAZZ drives, they should work fine under Windows 7. Same for Firewire.

But if you're using a ZIP connected to a parallel port... then it probably won't work.

Cheers,

J.

I tried the parallel connection on a desk top and the pcmcia card on a laptop and could not get my 1Gb to be recognized on my W7 machines, guess I will have to buy a SCSI card for the desktop.

I have an internal IDE Zip-100 drive that works fine in Windows 7 x86 using native drivers.

Thanks. I am looking to hook up and external 1GB JAZ.

I just started using W7. I used the native Iomega zip drive for my Zip 250 USB external and it works just fine. No issues.

Wow, now that's a blast from the past. Do you mind if I ask what you use it for? I remember mine being really slow to write to.

I may try to find mine and see if it still works. It's been many years since I've seen it.