I ended up throwing out the old disks with data because the way zip disks are made, the track is written magnetically to the disk in a spiraling way that if ANY part of that gets wiped, you get the "Click of death" which is where the zip drive can't find the soft track on the disk. Once that happens, the only way to get it working is to send the disk back to the factory (not likely) or just suck it up and throw it out (likely).

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IIRC, the "Click of death" was a hardware issue with the drive itself. ISTR having a drive replaced for that problem. The disks are written magnetically and indexed optically, so the situation you described shouldn't happen. Even if it did, reformatting/initializing the disk should fix the problem with the disk, while permanently borking your data, win some/lose some! [V] If you're getting "Click of death" try to find/snag another Zip Drive to test the disks before chucking them. [] ]'>