I tried this teoma to see if it gave me anymore info than what Google gave me for my iomega zip problem, and yes it did :o)
By chance the info came from person named T.C.
An upfront simple oops I seem to have made was that the drivers that I been using for my parallel port drive were those already loaded by Microsoft, but were for the Windows XP USB bus ports.
I'am hoping this is it, as I welcome doing a Dummy if now that will solve my problem.
Plus a second needed fudge is also mentioned below.
T.C. 2003-11-26 Windows XP has native drivers for the Iomega 100 USB ZIP drive. ... plug it into a USB port and Windows XP finds it ... No so for the parallel port model, you'll have to download Iomegaware AND the Parallel Port Slow Transfer Patch at: http://www.iomega.com/software/index.html -------------- T.C. 2003-11-26 ... using Windows XP, while the system is not powered on, disconnect the parallel port ZIP drive. Then boot into Windows. Go to Control Panel [Add or Remove Programs] and uninstall any Iomega software listed. ----------- Teoma is a service mark of Ask Jeeves, Inc.