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I’m trying to read a Iomega Zip 100 disk through old external Iomega Zip 100 drive, which I've connected to my MacBook Pro through the original USB 1.0 cable. It sounds like the drive is reading the disk (there’s no reason except age that either the drive or disk should be broken), but it doesn’t mount. Sony sxs card reader for mac.

Is my MacBook Pro capable of reading this at all? What’s the last OS from which I’d have any hope of reading this disk?

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A MacBook is certainly capable of working with this hardware. I remember when it was the preferred external media for Macs, and Iomega is still keeping the drivers up to date.

You mention that age is the only reason the disk or drive should be broken. Unfortunately, that's a pretty big reason — it’s possible that the magnetic material has degaussed. Try plugging the drive into another system. If that doesn’t work, try another drive, preferably one that is known to work.

If all else fails, you can find an expert who can recover data from flaky media. But that’s expensive, so unless the data is really valuable…

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