Bill Isham offers a potential solution to yesterday's report of a kernel panic when trying to mount a Zip disk. "I installed an internal 250MB Zip Drive, and would get a kernel panic whenever I ...

I have a bunch of 100mb Zip disks that I read/write protected with the Iomega Zip tools on an old Win98 PC which has gone. I have just tried opening them on another XP box and it just won't have it.

I have about 6 old zip disks, and a parallel port zip drive. I no longer own any computers with parallel ports. I would like to see what's on the disks. What's the easiest/cheapest way of going about ...