No offense intended, but why on earth would you want to run an old 2GB tape drive on Windows XP? Why not just buy a 100GB HD and use that for backup? No ugly noises, awesome performance, tons of space, no tapes to find, no drivers to mess with and best of all NO IOMEGA (the worst company in the computer hardware industry).

No Offence taken thanks,
 
Only reason for using it is that I have it, got it free and wanted to use it.
Though it would be easy to find drivers.
 
Thanks for reading anyway,
Doug
 
 
 

Quote:No offense intended, but why on earth would you want to run an old 2GB tape drive on Windows XP? Why not just buy a 100GB HD and use that for backup? No ugly noises, awesome performance, tons of space, no tapes to find, no drivers to mess with and best of all NO IOMEGA (the worst company in the computer hardware industry).

Sure thing Doug. I'm not sure if you're aware, but Iomega has one of the most deplorable hardware industry track records out there. They've had class action lawsuits put up against them 2 or 3 times. I know they promised tech support on their zip drive boxes and then charged everyone for support . 100,000+ zip drives had a mechanical flaw that would cause them to destroy the disk in the drive, and every disk thereafter. If you put that disk in a nondefective drive it would be damaged as well . I know my dad lost about 5/12 backup disks . I only lost one, but still it sucked. I also stepped on my parallel drive by accident one time. I did a service job and got home so late I just put the drive in it's carrying case on my floor and didn't see it and stepped on it in the morning . Naturally it broke, but oh well. I take it Iomega didn't have drivers? Did you try just running NTBACKUP.EXE from the command line and seeing if it was supported automatically?