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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FuzzFace who wrote (48596)	2/22/1998 11:48:00 PM
From: jwk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

EP -- I read your entire post to David, but all I could get out of it was, "Buy a Mac!"

To: FuzzFace who wrote (48596)	2/23/1998 12:32:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

EP and ALL, is the Norton Zip Rescue old news?...Here it is and it sounds significant to me. GM IOMEGA, SYMANTEC, UNVEIL ZIP DRIVE DR TECHNOLOGY GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 1998 FEB 20 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. Symantec [NASDAQ:SYMC] has teamed up with Iomega International, the European arm of Iomega [NYSE:IOM], to develop a disaster recovery (DR) system based around its PC recovery software and the Iomega Zip drive system. To be known as Norton Zip Rescue (NZR), the bundle will be Windows 95- specific, with the software drawn from Symantec's forthcoming Norton Utilities v3.0 application, which is due to ship in Europe this spring. According to Symantec, NZT will offer Windows 95 users a powerful disaster recovery (DR) system that quickly and easily fixes common Windows 95 problems. Officials with Symantec's European operation claim that NZR will provide Windows 95 users with valuable recovery capabilities from Windows registry corruption, partition table damage, missing or damaged system files, boot record damage, lost or damaged CMOS (non volatile) memory and virus attacks. Enrique Salem, vice president of Symantec's security and assistance business division, said that the DR bundle is the result of a partnership with Iomega International. "With Norton Zip Rescue users will have state-of-the-art disaster recovery capabilities," he said. The idea behind NZR is that users can create a Zip disk with their own system settings on a blank disk, in much the same way as PC users are advised to keep a DOS bootup disk for their PC if the hard disk ever fails. Since the Zip drive system cam store up to 100 megabytes per disk, however, the backup disk can contain a lot more data than simple Windows Registry settings. According to Symantec, NZR's software is set up so that, when (if) a system disaster occurs, the user simply inserts the NZR disk into the Zip drive, restarts the computer, and a simple-to-use Wizard automatically attempts to fix the problem, guiding the user through the rescue process step-by-step. Once the problem is fixed, the user simply restarts the computer and continues working. "The Zip drive is emerging as the standard that is succeeding the floppy drive," noted Randy Scott, European Zip product manager at Iomega International. "NZR provides a compelling reason for corporations both large and small to standardize on systems with Zip drives built in," he said. According to Symantec, the NZR software has been designed exclusively for use with Windows 95 based systems that include either an internal or external Iomega Zip drive. The good news is that Symantec plans that NZR will be included free of charge with Zip drives that ship in Europe from Q2 of this year. Plans are in hand to extend the deal worldwide, and Iomega is also planning to offer the software for free download for existing Zip drive users from the company's web site at iomega.com . Plans call for a Windows NT version of the software to ship some time during Q2 of this year. According to company officials, both firms have filed for patent protection covering various features and aspects of the recovery system. Reported by Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com .

To: FuzzFace who wrote (48596)	2/23/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Edwin, "Do you know if NZR gets Win95 from your existing C: drive, or if it comes with it's own "special" version?" When I create a zip rescue disk set (comprised of one zip disk and one floppy) the routine formats both the zip disk and the floppy disk before proceeding to create 1) a bootable floppy disk with a bunch of Norton utilities stuff (such as Norton Disk Doctor) and 2) a zip disk with a copy of Windows 95 (with all my personal settings) directly, I'm sure, from my hard drive; a copy of the registry, a copy of the boot record and a copy of your hard drive's partition information. I have already tried out the zip rescue set belonging to a friend, and it couldn't fix the registry...the registry was the problem to begin with. How, you ask? My friend got "cute" and tried out a new feature in Norton Utilities 3.0 that messes around with the registry (probably the registry editor) and his machine wouldn't boot to Windows anymore. Midwest Micro told us that Norton was aware of this problem and was in the process of fixing Norton Utilities itself. It took me ten hours to wipe out the windows directory, reinstall Windows 95 with a pristine registry and then reinstall all of his commonly used software so that the registry new about the software again. What a pain!!! I went through the exact painful experience messing around with Winprobe 95, using a feature that was supposed to "cleanup" the registry. Ha! Took me 3 days to reinstall everything. Lesson learned? DON'T mess with anything you don't have to..EVER!! BTW I am still a strong advocate of using anything Norton puts out because it is the only product in it's class that has actually saved me over the years many times from catastrophic problems that have occurred from time to time. Dave