External Firewire Hard drive

[bakes77]

I hooked up an external firewire hard drive and I can not see it in explorer. The firewire card shows up in device manager. The card is an adaptec firewire card and the hard drive is a maxtor. Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

[micker377]

Has the ext. hard drive been partitioned and formatted? What OS? Does it show in "My Computer"? Can you try any other firewire hardware (camera, etc.), to make sure the card is OK?

 

[bakes77]

The OS is XP professional, it does not show up in My Computer either. Will fdisk see the hard drive if it is on a firwire card? I have nothing else to try on the card, I guess I can wait till I get another device I can try.

 

[cdogg]

Did you follow the basic instructions that came with the drive? You can find them here:

http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor...rt_cards/onetouch_ii_quick_start_card_win.pdf

I suspect that you did not install the software before connecting the drive.


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[Freestone]

Does the drive show up in Disk Management? Start, Run, diskmgmt.msc

 

[bakes77]

I am setting up the drive for another user and did not have the instructions with the hard drive. The drive isn't a one touch drive either. All I had were the instructions for the firewire card. Thanks for the help and the instructions for the drive. The hard drive doesn't look quite like that and has no buttons on the front. The only connections in the back are firewire connections, no USB connections. I was not aware that you had to wait up to two minutes for it to detect. I have a camcorder at home and firewire hooked up to it and it is working fine, I think I will take the camera to test it there. My computer at home found my card and installed the drivers but this other computer and card did not act the same.

 

[bakes77]

It does not show up in disk management either, it shows up no where on the system. There is power getting to the drive, when I turned on the power usually there is a pop up saying that new hardware was found, well there was nothing like that.

 

[cdogg]

What's the model number of the drive?


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[paparazi]

Can the hard drive be remove from it's casing?
If so it is likely just a standard IDE drive and as such you could just connect it internally as slave to your PC's master (set jumpers) then use disc management tools to partition and format.
Return the drive to it's casing (reset jumpers to master) it should now be seen.
I know this is a roundabout way and you shouldn't really have to do it like this but.......
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[bakes77]

Well I found out the hard drive was doa. I took it to a firewire card that I know works and it never saw the hard drive. I then removed it from the casing and attached it internally and the drive would not even spin up. Well I am sending it back RMA, will have to wait a few weeks for it now. Thanks for all the help guys.