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After you formatted zip s original 100 mb disks in msdos or windows, they stored about 96 mb of data. Iomega brought its zip drive and zip disks to market in march 1995 with 100 mb capacity. There are at least five or six versions of the iomega zip 100 drive. Powered by your computers usb port for use with both pc and mac reads and writes to 100mb zip disks, not compatible with 250mb or 750mb zip disks. View and download iomega zip 100 installation manual online.
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The zip drive is not assigned a drive letter, or the iomega software cannot find the zip drive. Iomega 100 zip external 100mb usb drive for pc mac. Jul 02, 2010 does driver exist to enable file access from old iomega zip 100 drive. A zip 250 drive can read and write both zip 250 and zip 100 disks, but erasingreformatting a zip 100 disk in a zip 250 drive with the iomegaware software takes a long time. Iomega zip 100 zip drive usb series sign in to comment.
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