Windows XP Home Edition. I have one 1394-2000 standard DVD firewire device,
and when I added previously working Maxtor 1394 160GB drive with 1394-1995
Std, the Maxtor Drive stopped working. I found MS article 894956 stating this
is a confirmed problem. However, the workarounds (either disabling
controller and then enabling or turn off power on Maxtor) doesn't bring the
Maxtor to life. I have 80 GB of stuff that I need to retrieve.

Thank you in advance for your suggestions on methodology or procedures.
--
Ben

Have you tried removing the DVD, and then run through the article procedure?

PirateBen wrote:

> Windows XP Home Edition. I have one 1394-2000 standard DVD firewire device,
> and when I added previously working Maxtor 1394 160GB drive with 1394-1995
> Std, the Maxtor Drive stopped working. I found MS article 894956 stating this
> is a confirmed problem. However, the workarounds (either disabling
> controller and then enabling or turn off power on Maxtor) doesn't bring the
> Maxtor to life. I have 80 GB of stuff that I need to retrieve.
>
> Thank you in advance for your suggestions on methodology or procedures.

Thanks for the reply. I have both 1394 devices not connected to the machine,
and try to just use the Maxtor 1394 Hard Drive. I really don't need both
connected at the same time. However, when I saw the second firewire port, I
thought I might as well hook up both devices--I was wrong!

I was thinking about disabling the 1394 ports in the BIOS, then reenabling
them, but I started getting nervous as I didn't want to mess up things worse.

Thanks
--
Ben


"Bob I" wrote:

> Have you tried removing the DVD, and then run through the article procedure?
>
> PirateBen wrote:
>
> > Windows XP Home Edition. I have one 1394-2000 standard DVD firewire device,
> > and when I added previously working Maxtor 1394 160GB drive with 1394-1995
> > Std, the Maxtor Drive stopped working. I found MS article 894956 stating this
> > is a confirmed problem. However, the workarounds (either disabling
> > controller and then enabling or turn off power on Maxtor) doesn't bring the
> > Maxtor to life. I have 80 GB of stuff that I need to retrieve.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your suggestions on methodology or procedures.
>
>

I would try uninstall and reinstall the ports in Device Manager first.

PirateBen wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I have both 1394 devices not connected to the machine,
> and try to just use the Maxtor 1394 Hard Drive. I really don't need both
> connected at the same time. However, when I saw the second firewire port, I
> thought I might as well hook up both devices--I was wrong!
>
> I was thinking about disabling the 1394 ports in the BIOS, then reenabling
> them, but I started getting nervous as I didn't want to mess up things worse.
>
> Thanks