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EIDE ATAPI Iomega Zip on Dual-boot Windows 95 or Windows 98 Virtual Machine

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My EIDE ATAPI Iomega Zip drive runs in compatibility mode on my dual-boot Windows 95 or Windows 98 computer.

Solution

If you boot Windows 95 or Windows 98 from a raw disk (on a dual-boot host computer) and configure your EIDE ATAPI Zip drive as an available device when Windows is running as a guest operating system, the Iomega drivers and software run in compatibility mode (rather than 32-bit mode). This can happen when you switch between running Windows natively and running the same version in a virtual macine, as a RAW DISK. This happens because Windows 95 and Windows 98 do not actually insulate the different hardware profiles (the native and guest versions) from each other. VMware virtual machines do not support IDE Zip drives. Thus, when the drive is accessed from a virtual machine, no IDE driver is present and Windows falls back to DOS compatibility mode, hoping some legacy DOS driver is running.

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