My Firewire HD isn't being detected...doh

[PsychoAndy]

I recently obtained a US Logic 60 gig hard drive, and I finally got a firewire cable for it. I plugged it in, and being a consumer whore, I figured it'd be plug and play. Well, a device IS detected, as a hard drive, but it's called "dmi 0 IEEE 1394 SBP2 device". So as far as the computer knows (and what i assume), there's a device on firewire...but it doesn't detect what kind of HD it is or something.

There wasn't a CD or anything that came with this HD, and the previous user that I bought it from had a Mac. Any ideas on how to get this 50 buck paperweight to work? I'd appreciate any help.

 

[PsychoAndy]

anyone? anyone at all?

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

format it?? it probably can't recognize the mac file system.. i'm not too sure.. but i'm guessing that's why.

 

[jl123]

Have you check your disk properties? My Computer > manage > disk properties. See if it shows up there. If it does it probably needs to get partitioned and formatted. Just a guess because drives won't show up in your explorer/mycomputer otherwise.

Give it a whirl.

 

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: jl123
Have you check your disk properties? My Computer > manage > disk properties. See if it shows up there. If it does it probably needs to get partitioned and formatted. Just a guess because drives won't show up in your explorer/mycomputer otherwise.

Give it a whirl.

I couldn't find it under manage or disk properties or whatever, I guess because I was running win XP. I roamed around the control panel, went into admin tools, and i found what it was that you were talking about. I formatted it and its now working like a charm. Thanks!

 

[jl123]

Cool glad you got it working. Yeah there's several ways to get to it. I just checked and Xp pro and Xp home both can get to it the way I said. It's under the Storage section on the left pane. Anyways. Just matters that you got there.