SP3 hot-fix for ATAP ZIP drives is available

Thanks to Bruce McKee and Noam Rathaus for the tip: Microsoft has releaseda new hot-fix for Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 that fixes a problem withATAPI ZIP drives. If you are using a Parallel of SCSI ZIP drive, this fixis not for you!The

Paul Thurrott

July 15, 1997

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Thanks to Bruce McKee and Noam Rathaus for the tip: Microsoft has releaseda new hot-fix for Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 that fixes a problem withATAPI ZIP drives. If you are using a Parallel of SCSI ZIP drive, this fixis not for you!The problem is that Windows NT identifies the ATAPI version of the Iomega ZIP drive as a floppy disk drive and assigns it the first available floppy disk drive letter (usually B). Windows NT then refuses to accessthe drive.You can download the hot-fix from the Microsoft FTP site

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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