External Firewire HDD wont show up - Win XP

mobkon · 08-11-2005, 11:25 AM

Hey all, I plug in my external Fantom HDD to my windows XP computer and I heard the beep as if its recognized, but thats all it does. No drive shows up in My Computer or anything in the Device Manager. I am running 3 other external firewire drives and they all seem to work fine. THe other 3 drives are all Western Digital and Maxtor. This HDD originally came from a mac (im grabbing some files off of it for a friend) so not sure if that makes a difference since it is formatted for Mac and all.

**johnwill** · 08-11-2005, 04:41 PM

Check Device Manager and see if it's recognized. Also, check Disk Management and see what it has to say about the drive. I suspect it's being recognized as either unformatted or a foreign format.

ebackhus · 08-11-2005, 06:03 PM

Windows is stupid and usually won't recognize MacOS formatted media. MacOS, however, can read and write to Windows file systems.

08-11-2005, 11:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
mobkon Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 18 OS: XP Pro	External Firewire HDD wont show up - Win XP Hey all, I plug in my external Fantom HDD to my windows XP computer and I heard the beep as if its recognized, but thats all it does. No drive shows up in My Computer or anything in the Device Manager. I am running 3 other external firewire drives and they all seem to work fine. THe other 3 drives are all Western Digital and Maxtor. This HDD originally came from a mac (im grabbing some files off of it for a friend) so not sure if that makes a difference since it is formatted for Mac and all.

08-11-2005, 04:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 41,720 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	Check Device Manager and see if it's recognized. Also, check Disk Management and see what it has to say about the drive. I suspect it's being recognized as either unformatted or a foreign format. __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

08-11-2005, 06:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
ebackhus Manager, Design Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SATX Posts: 14,271 OS: WinXP Pro SP3/Windows 7 RTM My System Blog Entries: 28	Windows is stupid and usually won't recognize MacOS formatted media. MacOS, however, can read and write to Windows file systems. __________________ ----------------------------- There are no dumb questions, unless a customer is asking them. Help in the fight against cancer and other serious illnesses.