![]() The Iomega 100, 250, and 750 USB Zip drives work well with modern PCs and Macs. If you don’t have a USB Zip drive already, you’ll need to borrow one from a friend or buy one yourself. Luckily, there are vintage USB Zip drives that still work with modern PCs and Macs. To read any data off of a Zip disk, you need a Zip drive. But you’ll need a working Zip drive first. Otherwise, if your Zip disks are clean and in good shape, have been stored in a mostly climate-controlled space all these years, the odds are good that you’ll be able to read them. If your Zip disks are clean and were stored properly, reading them should be easy. Attempting to read a very dirty disk can further damage the data on the disk or damage the Zip drive that’s attempting to read it. If your disks show signs of extreme mold or water damage but the data on them is very valuable, it might be worth trying to contact a data rescue service first. Mold can grow on the magnetic disk surface itself in the wrong conditions, and that spells danger for your data. If your Zip disks have been stored in a hot, humid attic or damp basement for 20 years, it’s possible that you might have trouble reading them. First, Assess the Condition of Your Zip Disks It’s important to keep in mind that if you run the eraseDisk command, the target disk is going to lose all its data, so make sure you are erasing the proper disk.To actually read the data you copy over, you’ll need to figure out how to use virtual machines or emulators such as DOSBox and vintage applications to convert your data into a format you can use, and that’s far beyond the scope of what we’re going to cover below. The syntax is going to look like this: Diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Empty /dev/disk5s2 Let’s say the disk I want to erase has “/dev/disk5s2” as its identifier and I’m going to use Mac OS Extended Journaled (JHFS+) as the system format type and name it “Empty”. This is the syntax we need: Diskutil eraseDisk FILESYSTEM DISKNAME DISKIDENTIFIER Then pick a name and a system format type. ![]() Once you have found the proper drive to erase, just copy its identifier so you can use it for the next command. This is going to list all the mounted drives on your Mac. Start off by running the following command in the command line: Diskutil list Here I'll show you how you can erase and format a disk using the command line. To do that, the only thing you need is a bit of precise syntax to make sure that you are erasing the proper disk. ![]() But some Mac users might need to erase them from the command line on Mac OS. ![]() Most users use Disk Utility to erase a disk or hard drive. ![]()
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