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by podium.graphics 1 view

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Hi,

I really hope somebody can help. Yesterday I tried
plugging in my Lacie USB hard drive into my laptop
and I couldn\t get it to come up under in the My
COmputer part. I checked the device manager and it
said it was working fine and everything was cool. When
I plugged it in I got the little message that says new
USB hard ware found, installed ready to use. So it was
present on the machine but I just couldn't get to it or see
it.

I usually have it plugged in to my mac at work but its
plug and play and should be fine to use on a pc right?
All the drivers are correct aswell. The other thing is
when I plugged it in and checked its location it came up
with location 0 as a pose to when I plug in a mouse or
whatever it comes up USB prt 2 or whatever.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Mark

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by tqv

does your LaCie have a power source via USB? If so, plug that it - i had a similar issue and it worked.

by podium.graphics

hi yeah - I had the power supply plugged in and no
other peripherals other than a mouse connected and it
still didnt come up in the removable drives icons.

Gats

by dawgit

Ok, silly Question here, did you activate it? In your device manager,(sys properties-> hardware-> device manager) (I assume WinXP here) There you see the drive, right? Scroll down to your Lacie Drive, and right click. You'll see a menue, ('update driver', then either 'enable' or 'disable') click 'enable' (when it is 'enabled' you will see only 'disable') Then your drive might show up in 'My Computer' if still not then go to 'Administrative Tools' click on 'Computer Management'. Scroll down to 'Storage' and then to 'Disk Managemeent' Click on that and you will see all your disks. in this pannel you can change or name any of your drives.

by podium.graphics

Yup done all that and it was enabled and according to
all the device manager stuff it was present and working
properly with all the right drivers and everything I just
couldn't physically access it on any of the drives. Even
a search didn't find any of the folders on it.

Would I have to rename it then? I was a bit concerned
when the location said 0 instead of the port it was
plugged into. It's really frustrating to be able to see its
connected and working but not be able to access it!

Gats

by sgt_shultz

um. if drive was formatted on mac, you might have the symptoms you describe. you can double check it by looking in the Disk Management part of Administrator Tools (depending on your version of windows which you did not mention?)
so what you need to do to go between mac and pc maybe is first format the disk on pc and then take it to the make and make sure you can write on it. which file system and stuff depends on the version of mac os and windows os. try fat32

by hal 9000

OK there is currently a discussion running on USB Problems connected with XP and SP2 including all the currently available Patches and fixes at

http://tinyurl.com/f2twm

This is more likely to shed some light on your particular problem. There are some known USB 2 device problems associates with XP and they are addressed in this discussion.

Col

by hoynebuisness

Many LaCie hard drives come formatted for MACs and are not
readable by PCs. If you have both you may want to reformat it in
one of the formats which are readable by both platforms.

Another option is to buy MacDrive from mediafour:

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/

I've used one of the previous versions and was able to use my PC
laptop with my Mac formatted LaCie with no problems.

However, you won't be able to hook it up to someone else's
computer without installing MacDrive on their computer.

Hope this helps.

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