Iphoto thinks my hd is a camera

Ever since iv been using iphoto, when i plug in my external firewire hard drive it pops up thinking its a camera. Its never finds any 'items to import' since theres no photos on the hard drive. im using iphoto 6.0.6, any help would be ace. cheers.

Another option is to reformat the drive to Mac OS Extended (journaled). Your Mac thinks the Windows formatted drive is a camera. Reformatting erases the entire drive, so you have to move the data from it before proceeding.
The benefit of reformatting is that it will allow your drive to perform properly with iPhoto and iMovie. If you do not wish to reformat, do not save any iMovie projects to that drive, as you will experience anything from minor program glitches to catastrophic project failure.
Regards.

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