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In this technological era everyone makes use of internet to transfer their digital data. It may be your official data like text documents, PowerPoint presentations, spread sheets, application files, etc. or it may be your personal data like family photos, latest movie videos, melody audios, interesting games, etc. However, before the invention of Zip files transferring large amount of data was nearly impossible on internet. But this drawback was eliminated with the discovery of Zip file format, as these files allow you to transfer a huge amount of files and folders over network in a compressed form. Because of which these files are pretty much used by professional and non-professionals to store, transfer and maintain their data on Mac OSX system. Since Zip file includes bunch of files and has a great importance, losing one on your OS X system might create headache for you. Losing a single file is not bearable and what if you lose a bundle of files or a single file by just deleting, it's even hard to imagine. Don't worry..! This issue can be solved by making use of recovery software that can perform OS X Zip recovery on your Mac system.

• To install Windows on a Mac using VirtualBox: Obtain Windows 10 disk image (see the How to Get Windows for Mac chapter). Download and install VirtualBox on your Mac. Launch VirtualBox and click the New button in the top-left corner. Choose a descriptive name of the virtual machine and select Windows 10 as the version.
• IomegaWare 4.0.2 for Mac OS 8.6 or later, OS X 10.1-10.2.1. Drivers are not needed with OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6. Zip driver 4.2 for Mac Plus running System 6; Interfaces. Zip drives were available in numerous interfaces, including: IDE, an early ATA standard that does not support ATAPI commands.

Circumstances that creates a need for Zip recovery OSX…!

Zip -d archive.zip 'MACOSX/.' './MACOSX/.'.DSStore './.DSStore' Walkthrough: Create.zip as usual by right-clicking on the file (or folder) and selecting 'Compress.' Open Terminal app (search Terminal in Spotlight search) Type zip in the Terminal (but don't hit enter).

OS X failure: Although it's assumed that Mac is the most reliable operating system and which it is, but at times due to some unmanageable interruptions it may get crashed or fail and make all data unreachable including your Zip files. This creates a need for OSX Zip recovery on your Macintosh.

Unsuccessful Zip transfer: Most of the Mac users convert their files into Zip achieve while transferring data to USB drive from their Mac system, since it takes less time than normal. But removal of USB drive before completion of process may result in loss of Zip file from OS X.

Power Surge: This might become a reason for losing Zip file on Mac system. Suppose you are working with your Zip achieve and suddenly you Mac machine gets shutdown due to power surge. This incorrect termination may force you to execute Zip recovery on Mac.

Remo Recover – Excellent choice for OSX Zip recovery..!

Remo File Recovery is developed with high expertise and strong recovery programs which makes it a perfect choice to recover deleted Zip files from Mac OSX. It is the best undelete software for Mac users that is incorporated with deep scanning algorithm that helps you to retrieve deleted or lost Zip files on all Mac computers in quick span of time. It is counted as the most secure recovery tool for Mac as it is completely safe from hazardous programs like virus, malware, spyware, etc.

Perks of Remo Recover..!

• Remo Recover quite easy to use and help you to execute uninterrupted recovery of Zip file Mac
• Developed with many exciting features it enables you to retrieve Zip file on OSX with .zip & .zipx extension
• Help you to restore password protected Zip file from all Mac OS versions
• Assist you to find Zip files from recovered data by offering 'Find' option

Note: Do not waste much of the time after data loss. And go for Remo Recover to perform absolute recovery of data

Instruction to carry out OSX Zip recovery:

1: Download and Install the demo version of Remo Recover Mac and open the software to get main screen as illustrated in figure 1.

Figure 1: Main Screen

2: After selecting suitable option you need to select the volume / drive from which you need recover Zip files as illustrated in figure 2.

Figure 2: Select Volume

3: Completion of scanning process may take few minutes, after which list of recovered data from OSX will be displayed.

Figure 3: Recovered Data from OSX

4: To avoid scanning of the drive / volume in future you can choose Save Recovery Session option that will save the current process.

Figure 4: Save Recovery Session

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In the beginning, personal computers used cassette tape drives. Then came floppy drives, followed by hard drives. And then came removable media drives such as SyQuest, Bernoulli, and – perhaps best know of all – Zip.

Before Zip

Iomega had made a name for itself with its Bernoulli Box, a lower cost alternative to SyQuest drives with their hard disk platters. SyQuest had established itself with a 44 MB 5-1/4″ cartridge drive system using the same 130mm platters found in hard drives.

By contrast, Bernoulli cartridges had a floppy disk spinning at 3,000 rpm, using the Bernoulli Principle to pull the disk's surface toward the read-write head. Unfortunately, the original Bernoulli cartridge system used huge media, measuring about 8″ x 11″ (210 x 275 mm).

Bernoulli Box II used a smaller cartridge along with a drive that fit in a standard 5-1/4″ bay. Bernoulli drives were noted for their reliability, and they came in many different capacities.

Beyond Floppy Disks

Although Apple wasn't the first to use 3.5″ floppy disks, it was the first to standardize on them instead of the older, larger 5-1/4″ floppies. In the PC world, single-sided 3.5″ floppies held 360 KB of data, double-sided disks 720 KB. On Macs, the same disks stored 400 KB and 800 KB respectively.

High-density (HD) 3.5″ floppies arrived in 1987, and both PCs and Macs used them to store 1.4 MB of information. The same year IBM introduced its DSED (Double Sided Extended Density) 2.88 MB floppy drive and disks, which never caught on. The market needed a removable media drive with more capacity than floppies but at a much better price than SyQuest.

The Zip 100

Iomega brought its Zip drive and Zip disks to market in March 1995 with 100 MB capacity. Zip uses a cartridge a little larger and somewhat thicker than a 3.5″ floppy disk. It was also far faster than a floppy drive, which is part of what kept the competing LS-120 SuperDisk from catching on – it had higher capacity than Zip but was far, far slower. (Interestingly, SuperDisk began as an Iomega project that they ditched in favor of Zip. 3M acquired the technology from Iomega and brought it to market.)

With their relatively high capacity and low price (initially $20 per cartridge), Zip took off, selling nearly one million in 1995. A few Zip disks could back up most hard drives in 1995; one Zip disk could hold a bootable system plus diagnostics. Zip was also a great way to send files out to a service bureau.

Zip disks came preformatted for Macs or PCs, and either could be reformatted for the other platform using Iomega Tools.

A Word of Warning

The SCSI Zip drive allows you to choose one of two possible SCSI IDs, 5 or 6. SCSI ID 6 is rock solid, but SCSI ID 5 can have issues when other devices on the SCSI bus are moving a lot of data. Avoid using SCSI ID 5 if at all possible.

How Fast (or Slow) Is It?

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In 2013, Lui Gough tested several different types of Zip drives on his AMD Sempton 3300+ powered PC running Windows XP SP3. Here are the average and maximum transfer rates by drive mechanism:

• ATAPI Zip 100: 1.0 MB/s avg., 1.4 Mb/s max
• USB Zip 100, bus powered: 0.7 MB/s avg., 0.8 MB/s max
• SCSI Zip 100: 0.6 MB/s avg., 0.7 MB/s max
• Parallel port Zip 100: 0.2 MB/s across the board

Cam Giesbrecht ran benchmark tests on his Mac Quadra 605, also comparing HD floppy and hard drive performance. His results:

• floppy disk, writes @ 61.6 KB/s, reads @ 78.6 KB/s
• SCSI Zip disk, writes @ 1084 KB/s, reads @ 1123 KB/s (50% higher than SCSI on PC)
• internal Quantum hard drive, writes @ 1497 KB/s, reads @ 1850 KB/s
• external Quantum hard drive, writes @ 1367 KB/s, reads @ 1367 KB/s

The SCSI Zip drive performs better on this Mac and the one tested by Lui Gough on his Windows PC, in part because Macs were optimized for SCSI drives in those days while PCs were optimized for ATA drives. The Zip shows itself to be a decent backup medium, writing data at 70-80% of the write speed of the two tested hard drives.

As for the floppy, there is no comparison. Zip stores 70x as much data and runs about 15x as fast.

Finally, the Iomega Zip FAQ benchmarks Zip 100, SyQuest 44 (an older technology), and the hard drive in a 1989 Mac IIci, obtaining these results:

• hard drive: 119 KB/s random reads, 1099 KB/s 256K sequential reads, 71.1 KB/s random writes, 1216 KB/s 256K sequential writes
• Zip 100: 38.5 KB/s random reads, 1186 KB/s 256K sequential reads, 38.9 KB/s random writes, 1189 KB/s 256K sequential writes
• SyQuest 44: 37.3 KB/s random reads, 579 KB/s 256K sequential reads, 36.1 KB/s random writes, 579 KB/s 256K sequential writes

This seems to be comparing a 1989 vintage hard drive with two removable media options. Even an older hard drive outperforms Zip 100 and SyQuest 44 for random reads and writes, but the big surprise is that for 256 KB sequential reads, Zip beats the hard drive, while it takes a close second for 256 KB sequential writes, just behind the older hard drive.

Overall Zip had decent performance, especially compared to older hard drives. With contemporary mid-1990s hard drives, Zip would fall further behind yet still acquit itself nicely.

Lots of Options

Supported Platforms

As long as Iomega kept things simple, Zip continued to grow and grow. It supported most operating system of that era:

• MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, although Windows 7 and later will not work with parallel port drives
• Mac System 6 through Mac OS 9.2.2 plus OS X (System 6 requires an Iomega Drive version prior to 5.0, as does the Mac Plus)
• IBM OS/2
• AmigaOS 3.5 and later
• Oracle Solaris 8-11
• some Linux and BSD versions, although Zip is not universally supported
• some users have made SCSI Zip drives work with Apple II and Atari ST computers

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Later versions of Zip supported 250 MB (launched December 1998) and 750 MB (August 2002) of storage. Zip drive sales began their decline in 1999 as CD-R and DVD-R grew in popularity, followed by the explosion in USB thumb drives.

Driver Downloads

• IomegaWare 4.0.2 for Windows 98, Me, 2000, and XP. Not compatible with Windows 95 or NT.
• Iomega Zip 100MB USB Drivers Download, Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10.
• Iomega Zip 100MB Parallel Port Drivers Download, Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10.
• Iomega Zip 100MB ATAPI Drivers Download, Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10.
• Iomega Zip 100MB SCSI Drivers Download, Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10.
• IomegaWare 4.0.2 for Mac OS 8.6 or later, OS X 10.1-10.2.1. Drivers are not needed with OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6.
• Zip driver 4.2 for Mac Plus running System 6

Interfaces

Zip drives were available in numerous interfaces, including:

• IDE, an early ATA standard that does not support ATAPI commands
• ATAPI, a later version of ATA specifically for removable media; Zip 100, 250, and 750
• SCSI, internal and external, found on almost all Macs of the era, Zip 100 and Zip 250
• IEEE 1284 for parallel ports with passthrough for your printer, Zip 100 and Zip 250
• Zip Plus, an external drive that works with SCSI or parallel port, Zip 100 only

There were also three later implementations:

• USB 1.1, Zip 100 and Zip 250
• FireWire/IEEE 1394, Zip 250 and Zip 750
• USB 2.0, Zip 750

Incompatibilities

With each additional Zip format, Iomega further muddied the waters. It was simple when every Zip disk stored 100 MB and every Zip drive could read and write to it.

Zip 250 drives can read and write both Zip 100 and Zip 250 disks, although they write to Zip 100 disks very slowly. Zip 100 drives automatically eject Zip 250 disks as unreadable. Adblock doesnt work! mac os.

Zip 750 drives can read Zip 100 disks but not write to them at all. It is fully compatible with Zip 250 disks. Zip 100 and Zip 250 drives will eject a Zip 750 drive as unreadable.

Interestingly, Zip was listed as one of the 25 worst technology products (#15) by PCWorld in 2006 – and one of the 50 best (#23) in 2007!

Iomega was acquired by EMC in June 2008, making it part of the world's largest storage company. EMC and Lenovo partnered in 2013 to create LenovoEMC, which took over Iomega's business.

* No, it isn't a typo. Compleat is a legitimate, albeit archaic, spelling for complete. As Kenneth G. Wilson says in The Columbia Guide to Standard American English: 'This obsolete spelling of the adjective complete suggests an air of antiquity that seems to please some of those who name things….' We find that fitting for Low End Mac's Compleat Guides to 'obsolete' hardware and software.

Further Reading

• Zip Drive, Wikipedia
• The Iomega Zip Drive FAQ, 1995
• Iomega Zip Drive 100 Parallel, Centre for Computing History
• Our Favorite 'Forgotten Tech' – from BeOS to Zip Drives, Ars Technica, 2012
• Using a Zip Drive on a Mac Plus, Michael A. Peters, Jags House, 1998
• Mac Plus and Zip Drives Revisited, Vintage Mac World, 2007

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