Firewire hard drive

[jack parks]

I just installed a Diamond Max Plus 9 120 gb ATA/133 HDD
in an Oxford Simiconductor Ltd IDE Device Lun0/IEEE 1394
SBP2 Housing Device.

The device drive is recognized by XP with a tone when
turned on and is listed in Device Manager/Hardware/Disk
drives.

I have installed on this computer the following drives:
2 internal disks, 1 40 and 1 120 gig
1 3 1/2" floppy
1 DVD ROM
1 CD-RW
1 120 gig USB2 disk
I use the USB2 disk for backup and I need the firewire
disk because I do a lot of multimedia work. This takes up
a lot of space and I want to use this new drive strictly
for multimedia.

The problem I am having is that XP has not assigned a
drive letter for this drive and therefore I cannot access
it.

Can this problem be solved or is more information needed?

Thaks in advance,
Jack Parks

 

[Pete Baker]

Jack

If you can see the drive in Disk Management then you should be able to
complete the process there.

Right click the drive and select initialize disk and confirm. You should
then be able to create partitions and format from Disk Management
(right-click again). Once that is completed 'My Computer' will show the
drive.

If you want further details then there is a page on installing a disk using
disk management here

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/install_xp_disk_mgmt.html

Although it is on the Seagate site the instructions should work for any
drive.

Hope that helps
Pete

 

[Jack Parks]

Pete,

I had already initialized the drive and that didn't help.

But your idea of right clicking (which I should have
thought of) helped solve the problem. I clicked on
properties and it showed what had appeared before. I
noticed that there was a choice called partition and used
that and formatted the drive (slow format, taking no
chances) and it assigned a drive letter and formatted the
drive in about 50 minutes.

I am now using the drive and I hope I have no more
problems.

Thank you very much for your help, it helped solve the
problem.

Jack Parks

 

[Pete Baker]

Glad to be able to help, Jack

It's usually the simple steps that we miss first ) But it doesn't help
that the Disk Management in XP isn't exactly the most intuitive interface to
use.

Thanks for updating on your progress.

Cheers
Pete