Hi,
"If you have a CDR / RW drive or DVD writer" I don't. I have a pretty old (1997)
Dell with a floppy drive, ZIP Drive, and CD. I have most of my stuff that I want to transfer on ZIP disks. Once, I get it transferred, I agree, I won't have much use for the external ZIP drive.
You mentioned USB flash drives. Is that the same as a USB key drive? Some one else told me of that.
Dell may not supply external USB zip drives. You will however easily pick one up on line. I'd agree, not the neatest but probably also a great deal cheaper than what Dell wopuld have charged.
If you have a CDR / RW drive or DVD writer you may well find ( as I did ) that you end up using the zip drive a great deal less.
With these and USB flash drives now up to 4gb, A zip drive is nowhere near as necessary as it used to be to carry or archive 100mb or more of files.
Possibly only a great deal of use on machines without USB or CDR.
You may find you could get all the data transfered from ZIP to CDR or DVDR using any compnay or person who still has a zip and can carry out data transfer to optical media. A google search on this for your locality may help.
What size zip disks, you could look for an old 100mb parallel zip drive on ebay or such. if you only need 100mb disks. I still have one kicking about somewhere, haven't used it for ages.
USB flash drive, key drive, pen drive, thumb drive are all the same thing. They work fine on XP & 2000 but do not all work with 98 and possibly ME.
I pretty much have the same problem. I just so happen to work at a Community College. In one of the computer labs they have a few older systems set-up with internal Zips. If you could manage to find any non-profit oganization I'm sure you'll find some older systems W/ Zip
It's worth a shot. (It'll probly take me about 6 months to tranfer everything that I have. The flash drives help alot)
shesagordie
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March 7th, 2005 19:00
carth.
If a Zip Drive is not listed as an option, then the answer is no.
Bev.
ceri sheeran
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March 7th, 2005 20:00
Hi,
Easiest solution would have to be a USB connected ZIP drive.
hth
Ceri
carlh
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March 8th, 2005 13:00
I was trying to avoid externals if possible. I didn't see that USB connected drive as an option when trying to customize my purchase.
Carl H.
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March 8th, 2005 14:00
"If you have a CDR / RW drive or DVD writer" I don't. I have a pretty old (1997)
Dell with a floppy drive, ZIP Drive, and CD. I have most of my stuff that I want to transfer on ZIP disks. Once, I get it transferred, I agree, I won't have much use for the external ZIP drive.
You mentioned USB flash drives. Is that the same as a USB key drive? Some one else told me of that.
ceri sheeran
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March 8th, 2005 14:00
Hi,
Dell may not supply external USB zip drives. You will however easily pick one up on line. I'd agree, not the neatest but probably also a great deal cheaper than what Dell wopuld have charged.
If you have a CDR / RW drive or DVD writer you may well find ( as I did ) that you end up using the zip drive a great deal less.
With these and USB flash drives now up to 4gb, A zip drive is nowhere near as necessary as it used to be to carry or archive 100mb or more of files.
Possibly only a great deal of use on machines without USB or CDR.
Ceri
ceri sheeran
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March 8th, 2005 15:00
Hi,
You may find you could get all the data transfered from ZIP to CDR or DVDR using any compnay or person who still has a zip and can carry out data transfer to optical media. A google search on this for your locality may help.
What size zip disks, you could look for an old 100mb parallel zip drive on ebay or such. if you only need 100mb disks. I still have one kicking about somewhere, haven't used it for ages.
USB flash drive, key drive, pen drive, thumb drive are all the same thing. They work fine on XP & 2000 but do not all work with 98 and possibly ME.
hth
Ceri
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March 11th, 2005 13:00
Hey Ceri
I pretty much have the same problem. I just so happen to work at a Community College. In one of the computer labs they have a few older systems set-up with internal Zips. If you could manage to find any non-profit oganization I'm sure you'll find some older systems W/ Zip
It's worth a shot. (It'll probly take me about 6 months to tranfer everything that I have. The flash drives help alot)