Tech Support Guy banner
Status
Not open for further replies.

Problems accessing external firewire drive

625 views 1 reply 2 participants last post by  buddhafabio 
#1 ·
So I have a 75 gig firewire drive (Ganite FireVue 1394-IDE Bridge LUN0 IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device) that I used for video capturing with Mac computers. I would now like to use it on my PC.

The hardware manager shows that both my Firewire card and my drive are working properly and have updated drivers.

However, I have no idea how to access the drive! I thought it would appear in My Computer like a plug and play device would. But this is not the case.

It shows up in the Disk Management as the following:
"Disk 2: Unknown 71.59 GB Online" and "71.59 GB Unallocated". It has that little minus sign in a red circle on top of the icon. But I never used disk management, nor if I should. There are some files on the drive.

Enough babble! Can you help me get at my drive?
 
#2 ·
it is formatted for macs you need it formatted for pcs, i think macs can read pc file system but pcs cannot read mac file system so what you do is put your info back on the mac and reformat drive with the pc than move files back to the drive than the pc can read it.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
You have insufficient privileges to reply here.
Top