On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 20:53 America/Chicago, Helen Ron wrote:
When I inserted my Zip disk with photos on it I get the window that says: "This disk is unreadable by this computer, do you want to initialize the disk? "
The only choice is initialize & erase or eject.
Is there any hope of getting anything off of the disk?
There are possibilities, but no guarantees. You need a disk repair utility (Norton Utilities, Diskwarrior, TechTool). If you don't have one, you could try Apple's Disk Repair, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Open the utility and then pop the Zip into the drive. With luck, the utility will see it and allow you to work with it. Once you're this far, you can run the utility's repair cycle (cross your fingers).
Beige G3 - OS 8.6 - basically stock w/320mgb RAM standard CD, 2 - zip drives. one internal one external (don't know why - that's the way it turned out) Neither drive accepts the disk.
(One of these days I gotta figure out what CD burner will work with this system and then save photos on a CD.)
Just about any so long as you get a copy of Roxio Toast. With the Beige G3, you've got a wide variety of options without adding hardware other than the drive. I'd suggest getting an inexpensive internal IDE to replace the internal CD you have now. Most of these will work as a boot device. Check out the drive compatibility database at www.xlr8yourmac.com, and then go shopping. Don't put this off. Sooner or later, that zip disk (which is based on the floppy disk) is going to fail for good.
Hamlin
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