Firewire hard drive connection question

[tbone]

I recently purchased a Lacie firewire 160gig hard drive. I sent it to a friend out of town who loaded a large amount of data on it for me. I hooked it up to my PC before I sent it and it worked fine.

I got it back yesterday and now it doesn't work right. It's strange because the device manager sees it and claims it is working perfectly, but My Computer does not see it as a drive.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

[goofybevo]

Are you both running similar versions of Windows (are the file systems the same)?

 

[tbone]

I think he might have done it on a mac. I know he had to reformat the disk from NTFS to FAT32, but FAT32 should work on my XP system, shouldn't it?

 

[Bottom Line]

I have same exact problem with my ADS external firewire drive. At one point, I fixed it so the drive was recognized but later on it went invisible again. My hi-tech brother helped me troubleshoot and it still is invisible. I can make it visible by turning off the power or pulling the firewire cable, but it eventually goes back to invisible. I wish I had an answer also.

BL

 

[WooHorn]

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[tbone]

Actually, its 30,000 songs. sshhhhhh!

 

[goofybevo]

Yeah, that should still work. Hmmmm. Puzzling.

 

[tbone]

Any ideas?

 

[TexasOwnzYou]

right click on my computer -> manage -> disk management.

is it recognizing the drive? is it reporting it as fat32?

 

[tbone]

It shows it as Disk 1, with like a stop sign on it...and it says
Unknown
149.05 GB
Not Initialized


If I right click on it it gives me the option to initialize it. Is that like formatting? Will I lose the data if I do this?

Right Clickiing and looking at properties says it is a Lacie drive and it is working properly.

 

[mileslong]

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[tbone]

you just go back to converting your porn for your new mac

 

[goofybevo]

OK, so the problem is that he initialized for a Mac format, and you have to redo it for PC. If you initialize it for your PC, it's going to reformat the file system, and you'll lose all the data. Macs and PCs are like Israelis and Palestinians.

When will this data sectarianism end?

 

[tbone]

Well ****.

 

[EEE]

this is from the link

If you want to move a hard drive between a Mac and a PC, you can do one of two things.

Format the drive on the Mac and use MacDrive on the PC. MacDrive will allow Mac formatted hard drives to mount and data to be accessable. You can get info and order Mac Drive at:The Link
Advantage: Not limited to 32GB partition sizes.
Disadvantage: Costs about $50.00.

Format the drive on the PC in FAT32. The Mac and the PC will be able to mount it and data should be accessable from either computer.
Advantage: Free. Use Windows Format.
Disadvantage. Limited to 32GB partition sizes in FAT32.

 

[tbone]

ok well that sounds pretty good. I'm all over that tonight. Thanks eee.

 

[mileslong]

you didnt thank me for my advice....

 

[tbone]

Well if it was just Molly Hatchet maybe, but I'm not risking Saxon and April Wine too.