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24th April 2006, 06:39 PM
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| Gear nut Join Date: Apr 2005
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| Disappearing Hard Drives I am using a Powerbook G4 and this morning the unit will no longer see my firewire ext. drives. I have 2 different fw drives and even using 2 different cables the machine won't see them. Any ideas anyone? |
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24th April 2006, 06:53 PM
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| Gear Head Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: San Diego Ca.
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| I've been having the same problem with my Maxtor FW drives (2 of them) suddenly disappearing on my PC with XP professional. An IT guy at work said that it may be an XP service pack 2 issue (I cant find anything on MS site about it). I'm surprised to hear that it's happening on Mac's also!! Any idea's out there? Dan Plitt Sound Source San Diego, Ca. |
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25th April 2006, 03:31 PM
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| Gear addict Join Date: Jun 2002
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| Disappearing FW drives in XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;885464 Support from a few mfgrs for Mac.. perhaps there is some useful info here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....ers.search_fnl https://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...wers.search_nl http://www.seagate.com/support/ts/ex...1_desktop.html |
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25th April 2006, 03:55 PM
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto
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| I've heard of this happening for both machines... In a PC, this has happened when the PCs power goes off rapidly and before the external drive is "unmounted" (In my friend's case, a power outage). The disk went bye-bye. Not certain of the technical terms here, but whatever keeps the disk's file allocation system (directory?) available to the OS disappeared. "Get Data Back" worked. This is where I heard of it in Macs: http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_open_...ead/index.html see "The disappearing Firewire drive" towards the end. Hope you get your stuff back. File loss is horrible. James. |
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25th April 2006, 04:48 PM
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| Gear nut Join Date: Apr 2005
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| thanks guys, bizzare thing is both drives showed back up??? what gives? |
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