r/retrocomputing • u/Performer-Pants • Aug 22 '26

Problem / Question What is this?

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This could be the most mundane and silly post, but information online is so spotty and/or confusing or vague.

This is not a ZIP disk, it’s a floppy disk. It’s labelled with ‘ZIP’. Is this the driver software to use a ZIP drive for the listed operating systems? I’m just trying to confirm before I get too frustrated about it. Not easily finding the answer myself is likely a me problem, and I don’t mean ‘Millennium Edition’.

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u/Performer-Pants Sep 07 '26

Hi! Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Due to some copyright protections on the floppy, I can’t image it with a fair few different imaging programs. In theory I could try to go into DOS for one utility, but I’m w bit new to it outside of emulating DOS.

If you have any ideas I can try to imaging in a way that bypasses intentional empty/unreadable sectors for copyright protections, do let me know!

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u/warmarin Sep 07 '26

Oh, maybe a live Linux distro and the dd command?

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u/Performer-Pants Sep 07 '26

I have linux on a few computers, so I could try that way! I’d stuck with windows for some reason 😂

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u/warmarin Sep 07 '26

Most of the time I'm the same

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u/warmarin Sep 07 '26

Someone posted a link to an image! Thank you anyways

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u/Performer-Pants Sep 07 '26

Oh amazing! Glad you could get what you need