XP USB Drive not detected or installed fix

[Vernon Drake]

Hi!
Read the posts above from NooNoo & prashantisonline. My problem would relate to this. I had to abandon my xp toshiba laptop and purchased a toshiba w/Vista, which is a different species to say the least. My Zip drive appears fine when I go to start/computer but it only reads one of the ten Zip cartridges. Tried to get hidden files from the one & copy to others, but that doesn't work.
The other problem is that I have a removable HD for USB and will not display on start/computer, however it works fine on my XP desktop

[CCT]

I don't know about 'fixing' the problem BUT you could Google for 'xp vista file transfer' and the first 2 entries (now anyway) cover the specifics of getting your data (ie, get it into XP and transfer it to Vista).

Then, format the Zip disks in Vista.