Backup Problem into Iomega Disks

[Adela]

(WinXP Home SP2; OE 6; IE 6; Dell Dimension XPS T450MHz Pentium III; AVG Free Version 7.5.503; spybot S&D; ad-aware; cable; WordPerfect8; Lexmark Laser printer "Optra E310")

Hello, I used my WinXP backup into the 1st Iomega disk and it went fine...until I needed to continue with a 2nd disk. I use zip disks 100MB and it takes about 2 to 4 disks.

It refused to release the completed disk when I pressed the "Eject" button. So I tried to eject it from "My Computer" and it did eject but...with this message:

<<Currently in use. If you eject this disk now, you may lose data in your open files. Before ejecting the disk make sure all files are closed and no multimedia files (such as music or video) are playing.>>

But I didn't have anything open, no movies no videos and it wouldn't let me continue. I posted at Iomega Forum but no reply. Please help so I may conclude my backup?! THANK YOU so much!!! Adela :)

[Raddy]

I don't know what to do about the zip disks, but in all seriousness, I would say it would better to invest in a thumb drive or cd burner than fooling around with zip disks.

[Adela]

I don't know what to do about the zip disks, but in all seriousness, I would say it would better to invest in a thumb drive or cd burner than fooling around with zip disks.

thanks Raddy, but my computer is very old so I can't pump any more money into it. I have a very simple computer and all I wanted was to back up.

What's a "thumb drive"? I was hoping to backup everything and scan it at the strong AV sites to see whether some virus (that my good AV hasn't caught) is causing all the weird things that are happening in my computer since a month or two...

Thank you just the same. :o) Adela