Removable Firewire HD problems

[Guest]

I have an 80GB removable Firewire ONLY harddrive. It is a standard harddrive
that has been converted into a removable firewire harddrive using a hard
drive enclosure. In Windows XP, I would turn it on, and immediatly it would
detect the harddrive, display the Auto Run dialog box, and in My Computer,
you would see the new hard drive displayed. In Windows Vista beta 2, I turn
the hard drive on and nothing happens. It seems that no matter how hard I try
or what I do, Windows Vista doesn't even detect the hard drive! There is no
"New hardware found" noise or anything. As to my knowledge, you do not need a
driver to install this, I have read everywhere that the driver is included in
Windows XP, and even earlier OS's. Windows Vista will not recognize this hard
drive at all, however if I have the hard drive turned on while I am
installing Windows, it asks if I want to partition the removable HD, which is
weird because in the Vista OS, i get nothing! This is important to me because
all of my files I have backed up from Windows XP are on this hard drive.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Check the manufacturers website for any patches or firmware updates. Also
send in feedback and file a report:
For Feedback:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=55160

Feedback reporting tool:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=43655

 

[Guest]

there is no manufacturers website! this is a hard drive that I have built
myself using a hard drive enclosure (basically converting an internal HD into
an external IEEE 1394 hard drive), but I will use that reporting tool thanks

 

[Norman Diamond]

Assuming the enclosure has some electronics that convert 1394 signals to ATA
signals, the relevant manufacturer is the enclosure's manufacturer.
However, if it's anything like the USB enclosure marketplace, you're right
about there being no manufacturer's website.

 

[Guest]

I have a 320GB Firewire drive that has exactly the same problem. Vista
correctly finds my host controller, but it doesn't find the drive attached to
the controller. Like you, I backed up all my important files from XP to the
external disk, so it's pretty frustrating to not have access to them.

Link to my drive model:

http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=product&Item=GHD335C320

Jonathan.

 

[Guest]

I also have the same problem. I have a 80GB hard drive with my backups on it.
I also have a 160 usb drive that Vista does recognize. If I look at the
device manager I see the firewire drive but there is nothing you can get from
the drive....

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

What format are these external drives? FAT or NTFS?

 

[Guest]

Both of the drives are NTFS...

What format are these external drives? FAT or NTFS?

 

[Guest]

Both of the drives are NTFS...

I have a weird one too - I have an Icy Bix external FireWire/USB 2 drive
enclosure. Under XP, the firewire worked fine. However, under Vista, the
first time I plug the firewire in, it's recognised as a firewire hard drive,
but won't actually see the drive properly. Then on reboot, it doesn't even
acknowledge the drive is present.

However, if I use the USB2 interface, the drive works normally. I'm using
the latest firmware on the enclosure!

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Jonathan, I have the same drive and it works fine connected to USB on RC1 but
gets a driver error when connected to the firewire port.

Let me know if you found a solutions as I would like to have it on my
firewire channel