When holding down the Command-Option keys, through the entire boot sequence, the Iomega Driver extension is temporarily disabled. Inserting a Zip disk would result in the disk not appearing on the Desktop.
There are three workarounds for this problem:
- If you are attempting to rebuild the Desktop on your Power Macintosh G3, wait until all extensions are loaded before you press and hold down the Command-Option keys. An easy way to determine this is to wait until the progress bar under the Mac OS logo is almost completely to the right side.
- If you have already rebuilt the Desktop on your Power Macintosh G3, you can load a temporary driver by launching the Iomega Guest application. This application is typically located in the Utilities folder within the Iomega folder.
- After the Desktops rebuild is complete, restart your Macintosh.