Mounting a Firewire HD

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A friend of mine just gave me a Lacie 6gig firewire HD
that he used on his Mac. He said he formatted it MS-Dos
which is an option in OSX. Now the part I dont understand
is no matter what I do it wont show up BUT the device
manager says it's there and working fine. I suspect it
needs to be formatted Fat32 but I cant run fdisk on it
because firewire isnt active during an a: bootdisk. Is
this a lost cause?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Kato
 
There is a program called disk managment on windows xp
that can format the drive to ntfs.If you go to help and
support and type in disk managment and read the articles
on it you should be able to partition it.
All the best
 
A friend of mine just gave me a Lacie 6gig firewire HD
that he used on his Mac. He said he formatted it MS-Dos
which is an option in OSX. Now the part I dont understand
is no matter what I do it wont show up BUT the device
manager says it's there and working fine. I suspect it
needs to be formatted Fat32 but I cant run fdisk on it
because firewire isnt active during an a: bootdisk. Is
this a lost cause?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Kato
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Hi, Kato!
If you can take your HD out of its Lacie casing and mount it internally
as slave HD inside your PC main unit, you will be able to partition and
or format it using the standard Windows XP procedure in Device Manager.
When done, power your PC down, take the HD out, and put it back inside
its Lacie casing as master drive.
This should do the trick.
 
Thanks for the info folks, I'll give 'em a try.


-----Original Message-----
There is a program called disk managment on windows xp
that can format the drive to ntfs.If you go to help and
support and type in disk managment and read the articles
on it you should be able to partition it.
All the best
.
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