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Removable Firewire HD problems
Jonathan, I have the same drive and it works fine connected to USB on RC1 but
gets a driver error when connected to the firewire port. Let me know if you found a solutions as I would like to have it on my firewire channel "Jonathan" wrote: I have a 320GB Firewire drive that has exactly the same problem. Vista correctly finds my host controller, but it doesn't find the drive attached to the controller. Like you, I backed up all my important files from XP to the external disk, so it's pretty frustrating to not have access to them. Link to my drive model: http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=p...tem=GHD335C320 Jonathan. "Jordan" wrote: I have an 80GB removable Firewire ONLY harddrive. It is a standard harddrive that has been converted into a removable firewire harddrive using a hard drive enclosure. In Windows XP, I would turn it on, and immediatly it would detect the harddrive, display the Auto Run dialog box, and in My Computer, you would see the new hard drive displayed. In Windows Vista beta 2, I turn the hard drive on and nothing happens. It seems that no matter how hard I try or what I do, Windows Vista doesn't even detect the hard drive! There is no "New hardware found" noise or anything. As to my knowledge, you do not need a driver to install this, I have read everywhere that the driver is included in Windows XP, and even earlier OS's. Windows Vista will not recognize this hard drive at all, however if I have the hard drive turned on while I am installing Windows, it asks if I want to partition the removable HD, which is weird because in the Vista OS, i get nothing! This is important to me because all of my files I have backed up from Windows XP are on this hard drive. |