Drive appears in device manager but not in My Computer

I just wanted to post a solution that took me about 2 hrs to solve. Issue was, my firewire WD TB drive would be seen, by XP (SP3) on boot camp, in xp's device manager but not in My Computer. My goal was to format this as an NTFS drive for my boot camp files. I was unable to format this in Leopard as ntfs either. I tried installing HD drivers and formatting from leopard as FAT32 (just so Windows would see it) but all failed.
The solution I used was as below. (this would not work if you want to retain data on the drive, I didn't care as I was setting up an old drive and reformatting from scratch). Solution:
- Download free 10-day trial of Paragon's NFTS for Mac.
- Install on Leopard (note app seems sparse after download as if it didn't work) but... then...
- Open Disk Utility, you'll notice more options under Erase>Format Options drop down. Paragon acts like a plugin it seems and gives Disk Utility NTFS format options. Don't erase yet...
- Go to Partition tab, Select 1 partition and the options and select Master Boot Record and partition. (Win XP didn't see my 2nd partition when I did this so maybe it can only see the one). Anyhow create 1 big MBR partition.
- Then, go back to erase if you want and zero out.
Drive should then appear when you restart in XP.
I reformatted here from xp too just to be sure that the drive would be fully xp compatible though not sure this would be necessary.
BTW - I also had a 120GB usb drive with the same issue. For some reason with this one I was able to simply erase as FAT32 from leopard without the Paragon plugin and it showed up in XP. Go figure.

Hi Simnap,
Unfortunately Windows XP can only read hard drives that are 2 TB's or less due to barriers set in place by the age of the operating system and the hardware of that time period, even if its still used now. So you may have to partition the drive into (2) 2 TB's or (4) 1 TB's in order for XP to see it. Mac OS X supports 4 TB and above, just not XP.
Kind Regards,
Sidney S. Ramirez

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