Final solution for this became obvious when I broke open the Iomega Zip and discovered the top head had slid caticornered off to one side. My finds have been tight, so it wasn't until the end of October. RE: Iomega Zip Drive 250-USB and W2K ttterk (TechnicalUser) 16 Jul 03 03:23 Of course I was not living in Maryland!!!! To be continued. I bought my drive within the allocated time period, and never saw any notice anywhere about the class action suit. Some settlement- a bunch of discounts and a million dollars in Iomega products into schools, while all owners fo Iomega disk-eating drives get screwed- quietly. I am also going to contact the Click Site and ask them why they don't have some reference to their lawsuit being settled. I will call back Iomega specifically addressing the promise and then post my final outcome here. I am going to review the links, clips of Iomega's President stating on ZDTV 'If our customers have a problem specific to this issue, whether it's in or out of warranty, we're going to take care of and replace the product if necessary'. Only after that would I send in the disks for a 1-1 swap.

I need to purchase some kind of data recovery software, possibly like that offered on the Click Site, then in a drive working attempt to recover my data. From the Click of Death site, I downloaded and ran their diognostic prgram which told me that everyone of my disks had been affected by this Iomega hardware distruction. So this leaves me in the situation of having over a Gb of data on Iomega disks that I can't access. He also said Iomega would replace disks for free. In asking about repair costs on my Zip 250, Wes said $79.00, however, if I bought a new one, I could get a 15% discount and $30 mail in coupon that would make the cost of a new one the same as repairing the original one, with a new 1-yr warranty. The class action settlement does not say anything about replacing the drives for free. Iomega agreed to give all kinds of discounts such as rebates off purchases of new disks(!) and Drives. The time period for being a member of it has expired. This enabled him to say the lawsuit had been settled.(May 2002) All of the information related to the class action lawsuit against Iomega is available. I then, perhaps, made the mistake of saying I was aware of the Lawsuit. I mentioned the 'Click of Death' to a 'Wes', and mentioned David Hellier's promise to replace click dead drives. In contacting Iomega, 80 and giving my Zip 250MB-USB Serial # I was told it was out of warranty(purchased Jun 2000).

Without a doubt the Click of Death page is a valuable explanation of what is wrong with the zip drive.

Iomega 250 zip drive software