Hey guys,
I have an external hard drive enclosure, which i put in an old WD 40GB hard drive. I connected it to my laptop via firewire, and was ale to browse the files on the HD with no problem.
I realized they were all old files that I didn't need anymore, so I decided to go ahead and reformat the drive. I right clicked on it from my computer and went to reformat. did a Quick format, and got the message "Windows was unable to complete the format".
Now, the drive shows as busy (red led on) I can't find it in my computer, and has an exclimation point listed on it under device manager (in fact, all the symptons described in kb 885464 are present: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885464
I contacted microsoft and obtained the hotfix, but the problem is still there. I vertified that the driver is the same date and size as listed in the kb article.
I tried doing a full (non-quick) format, and it'll go all the way to 100% before giving me the error.
The firewire chipset is a Prolific PL3507, and I heard flashing the ROM to a newer version may help, but I cannot find instructions on how to do it. I also heard of a 128kb transfer limit or something similar to it, but I'm not sure if that would affect me reformating the drive.
I have an external hard drive enclosure, which i put in an old WD 40GB hard drive. I connected it to my laptop via firewire, and was ale to browse the files on the HD with no problem.
I realized they were all old files that I didn't need anymore, so I decided to go ahead and reformat the drive. I right clicked on it from my computer and went to reformat. did a Quick format, and got the message "Windows was unable to complete the format".
Now, the drive shows as busy (red led on) I can't find it in my computer, and has an exclimation point listed on it under device manager (in fact, all the symptons described in kb 885464 are present: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885464
I contacted microsoft and obtained the hotfix, but the problem is still there. I vertified that the driver is the same date and size as listed in the kb article.
I tried doing a full (non-quick) format, and it'll go all the way to 100% before giving me the error.
The firewire chipset is a Prolific PL3507, and I heard flashing the ROM to a newer version may help, but I cannot find instructions on how to do it. I also heard of a 128kb transfer limit or something similar to it, but I'm not sure if that would affect me reformating the drive.
I've tried many times in the past to fix this with another external hard drive and nothing I ever did worked.
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