Trouble installing a ditto omega 2 GB tape drive?

I have a perfectly working iomega ditto 2GB backup EXTERNAL drive. I have the original CD/Disk that came with it. I have XP SP2 w/plenty hardware muscle . So far there is no way the system can locate it.

NOW GET THIS. iomega doesn't support it anymore because they said it's like the difference between a old rotary phone & a cell phone. HUH? WTF does that have to do with it? It's also still under warranty for the next 10 years according to my S/N & their site.

With the old software loaded it trys to set up the tape drive & it seeks the driver but says I don't have it. I tired manually to find it.

I tired setting the .exe files to 95 then 98 compatibility & that didn't work. It's fine as far as a tape drive is concerned and I have about 20 tapes so I thought I'd use it.

I've search & searched the net w/o luck but maybe I'm missing something. It seems silly to just toss it in pile where the 486/100 pc's are.

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