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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rll who wrote (4529)11/23/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: BeachBum  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10072
 
I believe this is a CompUSA advertisement. Thats why I don't remember the price for the package, the only time ZIP was mentioned was at the end of the commercial and it didn't really tie the ZIP to the OS. It must mean CompUSA believes the Zip will help sell the OS or maybe IOM is paying a rebate ? I just thought the commercial was interesting because it was the 1st time I heard it.

BB ^-^-



To: rll who wrote (4529)11/23/1998 12:18:00 PM
From: Philip J. Davis  Respond to of 10072
 
rll,

If you have Win98 installed on your computer and have converted your hard disk to FAT32, you can still read and write to FAT16 formatted Zip disks. No need to convert the Zip disks to FAT32. To do so, as you say, would preclude them from being read by FAT16 based operating systems.

I don't think the advertisement suggested converting Zip disks to FAT32.

regards,

Philip



To: rll who wrote (4529)11/23/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: Richard Schmidt  Respond to of 10072
 
Win98 and SR2 of Win95 only allow the FAT32 format to be used
on large hard drives. There would be no change in how ZIP is formatted, and thus no problem reading it accross different
versions of Windows.


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