removable firewire hd s

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.

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 -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Jordan" wrote in message

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.

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
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

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 -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Jordan" wrote in message 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.

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.
"JordanSpringer" wrote in message

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
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
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 -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Jordan" wrote in message 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.

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.
"Jordan" wrote:

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.

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....
"Jonathan" wrote:

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.
"Jordan" wrote:
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.

What format are these external drives? FAT or NTFS?
-- Mark
Keeping the fun in dysfunctional! "artF" wrote in message

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....
"Jonathan" wrote:
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.
"Jordan" wrote:
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.

Both of the drives are NTFS...
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

What format are these external drives? FAT or NTFS?
-- Mark
Keeping the fun in dysfunctional! "artF" wrote in message 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....
"Jonathan" wrote:
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.
"Jordan" wrote:
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.

"artF" wrote:

Both of the drives are NTFS...
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
What format are these external drives? FAT or NTFS?
-- Mark
Keeping the fun in dysfunctional! "artF" wrote in message 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....
"Jonathan" wrote:
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.
"Jordan" wrote:
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.

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?

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.

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.