External firewire drives unrecognized 50% of the time
The drives do not show up at all, especially when using Windows. I am using only the firewire 800 port. Unplugging/plugging back in does not help. I think it is a driver problem with windows?
clemson47 wrote:
The drives do not show up at all, especially when using Windows. I am using only the firewire 800 port. Unplugging/plugging back in does not help. I think it is a driver problem with windows?
Hi,
how are these harddisk formatted/partitioned.
Windows can not see/use harddisks that are using the 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' file system without the help of something like MacDrive.
Also when you use GPT (GUID partition Table) with the harddisks, that can prevent the disks from being seen in Windows.
Regards
Stefan
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