USB 2.0 Drives: saving zip archive to them fails.

[Sylvander]

It's a 1 GB memory stick and an 80 GB external IDE HDD enclosure connected to a PCI to USB 2.0 controller card.

With this single exception, everything in regard to them appears to be working as it aught.

I can save files to a zip archive just fine on the internal HDD, but not to the USB devices.
At least I cannot see them, or find them in a "search" even though I know exactly where I specified the archive should be saved, and [as normal] was watching the folder [as the archive was being created] expecting to see the zip file appear.

[azzey]

What OS is this in?

[Paul Komski]

... and which archiving utility is it and are you trying to modify an existing archive or create one de novo.

[Sylvander]

1. This is in Win2000Pro.

2. The utility is "UltimateZip" [GREAT zip utility], and I was making a new archive, not modifying one already in existence.

3. Just tried it again, and again it failed, and I cannot find "Test.zip" on any of my presently accessible drives. [C: D: E: F: G: H:]
I saved it to "H:\00\Test.zip".

4. It saves to "C:\00\Test.zip" just fine.

[Paul Komski]

UltimateZip has been good but the latest version can only be downloaded as "cripple-ware".

I would try another archiver and see if you can then differentiate if the problem is with Windows or the Utility itself.

I personally like 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) but Izarc (http://www.izarc.org/download.html) and ZipGenius (http://www.zipgenius.it/) are other considerations.

[Sylvander]

Installed "7-Zip" and used it to make a zip archive to "H:\00\Test.zip", which it did just fine.
".zip" files are still associated with "UltimatZip" so I was able to right-click on the file [on the Flash Drive] and "Extract to Here", and "UltimatZip" ran and extracted all the files into that folder.

I like the fact that 7-zip uses its own "7-Zip File Manager", so it's possible for me to choose to use either "UltimatZip" or 7-Zip to do a job.

As time passes I'll see which I like best.

[jlreich]

Haven't tried 7-Zip. But I have been using ZipGenius for about year or so and like it quite a bit. Many options and many formats.

[mjc]

i've been using Izarc for quite a while now...