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Subject:Re: Are Zip drives obsolete? From:"David Berg" <dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:30:39 -0600
It's a little worse than that even, it's essentially a hardware virus.
If a disk starts to click in one drive, then you're likely to have the click
show up with any subsequent disks that you put in that drive. Likewise, if
you have a disk that has ever clicked in a drive and attempt to put it into
another drive, that drive will probably start to click and damage any disks
that you put into the drive after that.
The fix that you mentioned from the internet is a very iffy deal, the click
is a problem caused by hardware damage.
David
> Everyone is forgetting to mention that Zip drives are renowned to have a
> problem. They eat disks. We just purchased a CD writer to save all my old
> projects on, I trust a CD more then a Zip drive. Especially when my Zip
drive
> ate my disk and I lost an entire project. There is a fix on the internet,
but
>
> sometimes it's just too late to fix the disk and the information is gone.
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