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Title: Problem figuring out an external firewire hard drive... Post by: Train Wreck on October 17, 2005, 04:35:01 PM I bought a new LaCie hard drive. I plugged it into a mac iBook and it worked just fine, however, when I plug it into my PC running Windows XP, the drive doesn't appear. I'm not as savy with Windows and was under the impression that it should show up under My Computer when I plug it in. Is there a step I'm missing? It is showing up in Device manager under Disk Drives, and is showing up under Belarc Advisor as Disk 5, but I can't figure out how to browse or otherwise access it. If anybody has experience in these matters, I would appreciate any pointers.
Title: Re: Problem figuring out an external firewire hard drive... Post by: Krakrok on October 17, 2005, 05:35:36 PM It doesn't sound like it has a FAT32 or NTFS partition. If it doesn't it won't show in My Computer. Did you format it with your iBook or some such?
Title: Re: Problem figuring out an external firewire hard drive... Post by: Train Wreck on October 17, 2005, 06:01:57 PM That's probably the problem. Thanks. :-D
Title: Re: Problem figuring out an external firewire hard drive... Post by: Alkiera on October 18, 2005, 10:41:11 AM Cleverly, if your format it with the PC, MacOS will read it. the other way doesn't work.
Also, if the PC is running an OS older than Win2k/WinME(namely, Win98 or NT4) then you need to install drivers to get USB devices working, as those OS's didn't really support USB very well. Alkiera Title: Re: Problem figuring out an external firewire hard drive... Post by: Yegolev on October 18, 2005, 12:28:21 PM See if it shows up in diskmgmt.msc (you know, Start->Run).
Title: Re: Problem figuring out an external firewire hard drive... Post by: Sky on October 19, 2005, 07:11:38 AM Quote from: LaCie **These LaCie drives are pre-formatted as HFS+ volumes for immediate use with Apple computers. For cross-platform use, Windows users can easily reformat the drive in NTFS (Windows utilities) for Windows XP/2000 or in FAT32 (with Silverlining 98 for Windows 98SE/Me, or with Silverlining Pro for Mac OS 9 or Apple Disk Utilities for Mac OS X). For more information about formatting, please refer to the User’s Manual. Title: Re: Problem figuring out an external firewire hard drive... Post by: Train Wreck on October 19, 2005, 09:10:25 AM Yeah, somebody must have formatted in Mac while I was away, because that's the format it was in when I tried it on my PC. I was assuming that people had left it alone, but I was obviously wrong. Maybe I should have plugged it back into a mac to see if it had anything juicy on it before nuking it. I'm nosey like that.
Title: Re: Problem figuring out an external firewire hard drive... Post by: Kairos on October 21, 2005, 09:18:13 PM Just make sure you format it as FAT32 if you want to use it on Mac. As of MacOS 10.4, you *can* read NTFS volumes, but you can't write to them.
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