Lacie firewire drive problem from a Mac newbie

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Numpty - 29 Oct 2004 02:00 GMT

I purchased a Imac G5 last Sunday, along with this i got the Lacie firewire
drive
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10110
160GB model in order to transfer some files from my work Pc to the Imac at
home.

The drive works great with the Imac, However when i plug it into my Win XP
Pro box it shows up within DEVICE MANAGER under Hard drives. It does not
show up within Windows Explorer. I am assuming i have to mount the drive in
someway, But not sure how.

Or will a H/D for a Mac not work with a pc?????

Sorry for what is probably a very newbie question but i am stuck.

TIA

H

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binky - 29 Oct 2004 04:09 GMT

> I purchased a Imac G5 last Sunday, along with this i got the Lacie
> firewire drive
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>
> H

The Mac-formatted drive will not be recognised out of the box with the PC.
There are two options:

1. Format the disk as FAT32, then both OSs can read/write, but you won´t be
able to use it as a startup volume for a Mac

2. Keep the Mac format and investigate 3rd party apps for the PC (used to be
PCMacLAN, MacDrive et al - not too sure these days, as I use option 1)

hth

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Ribfeast - 29 Oct 2004 04:30 GMT

The drive would be mac formatted, therefore the PC wouldn't be able to read
it unless it has MacDrive installed or something. Or you could reformat it
to PC format, but I think PC formatted drives work fairly slow on macs (well
they used to at least).

On 29/10/04 11:00 AM, in article
41819523$0$13765$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au, "Numpty"
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> I purchased a Imac G5 last Sunday, along with this i got the Lacie firewire
> drive
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> H

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Matt McLeod - 29 Oct 2004 04:53 GMT

>The drive would be mac formatted, therefore the PC wouldn't be able to read
>it unless it has MacDrive installed or something. Or you could reformat it
>to PC format, but I think PC formatted drives work fairly slow on macs (well
>they used to at least).

I reformatted my iPod to use FAT rather than HFS+ so I could move
files around between PCs and Macs, and performance on the Mac has
been just fine.

I'd suggest reformatting the drive on the PC. Just make sure you
don't use NTFS as that's not supported by OS X.

Matt

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Lacie firewire drive problem from a Mac newbie