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bacchus · Oct 10, 2002, 07:31 PM

Hey folks, i need to hook up my external firewire drive to a friends XP machine. He has a firewire card installed but we cant seem to get the machine to recognize the drive...

Anyone have any ideas? Do we need to reinitialize the drive or something?

Bacchus

fulmer · Oct 10, 2002, 07:41 PM

does xp have any disk utilities that might see it?

bacchus · Oct 10, 2002, 07:44 PM

Not that im aware of.

Bacchus

CRASH HARDDRIVE · Oct 11, 2002, 02:54 AM

If the drive is already Mac formatted, then XP won't recognize it.

You either need to reformat it as NTFS or run a utility like MacOpener on the PC.

CatOne · Oct 11, 2002, 03:04 PM

Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE:
If the drive is already Mac formatted, then XP won't recognize it.

You either need to reformat it as NTFS or run a utility like MacOpener on the PC.

I use MacDrive on XP and it works great for this. Leave the drive formatted as HFS+ and it's all good.

Formatting as FAT32 and accessing it from the Mac is more of a pain, because the max size you can format at FAT32 drive from NT/2000/XP is about 33 gigs... larger than that you have to partition it... yecch.