We are indeed working on finding an old XP machine today to try the ZIP drive on, I will report back once we have tried that. I'm constantly amazed that a multi-milllion dollar jet can be this hard to update a database on! The aircraft is going to get a full avionics upgrade in September to a newer system that will allow database updates through an SD card, but for now this is the only option.
I really appreciate you all taking the time to help us. File explorer shows the drive but will prompt me to "Please insert a disc" when the drive is selected. Disk manager shows its as a 96MB unallocated drive, but will not let me format it. In device manager, it recognizes the drive as "Iomega Zip 100 Drive". The computer recognizes the drive as a USB Mass storage device. The second drive we bought (Zip 100) did come with a CD to install the software, however it gives me an error at installation because the system is 64 bit, I may need to try a 32 bit computer (If i can find one!).ģ. I have tried to do this on multiple computers, all 64 bit systems running Windows 10. I do not believe the issue has anything to do with the manufacturer or their data, as I explorer won't even recognize the disk.Ģ. The data is supplied from the manufacturer as an EXE that will extract the data onto the disc. I am trying to update the Navigation Databases on the aircraft, the guide posted by fzabkar is indeed the correct guide from the manufacturer (I don't even want to know how you found that!). Looks like there's a few questions here I need to answer, let me start with a thank you to Ralston for moving this to the correct forum.ġ. Is it possible the first drive corrupted all the discs and I need to buy new ones?Īny help would be greatly appreciated, I am out of options and the only other way to update the software in the aircraft is to spend $15,000+ on a Solid State Data Transfer Unit. It would occasionally read the disks, but as soon as I tried writing on them they became corrupt and unreadable.
Does anybody have any idea on next steps? I tried another Zip 250 drive we had on hand before this, and it also did not work. I opened disk management, and it shows there is a 96MB unallocated drive there, however trying to format the drive leads to a cyclic redundancy check. Once a disc is inserted, it is not longer grayed out, but clicking on the drive results in a prompt to "Please Insert a Disc". The computer recognizes the drive, it shows as "USB Drive" in explorer, and is grayed out. I purchased an Iomega Zip100 external drive from Ebay (USB), and 10 discs from Amazon. I consider myself pretty tech-savvy, but this has me stumped and I've never been afraid to ask for help from those smarter than me. I need to burn a 100mb Zip disk to update the software on one of our aircraft, and I have been having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to do it.