Try this. For PCs connect with USB 2.0. For Apple, firewire (definitely).
There are still issues with using firewire for storage on PCs. If you feel this shouldn't be, please call that famous author.
Bob
Hi everyone. I just purchased a LaCie 160 GB external HD, hooked it up to my 1394 firewire port. Formatted it in NTFS in the Drive Management utilty. It formats and then I got a " drive inaccessible " message. Tried to copy some files to it-no dice. The DM utility says it's healthy and active. Of course I previously let Windows install the driver for it. Next, I went to the command prompt to format NTFS. It formatted 100 percent. Asked for a volume label. Then I get,
""creating file system structures" then I get, ""foramt failed". I've been doing PC's since DOS 2.2. I don't get this at all.
system is: XP sp2, 2GB ram, Athlon duo core. LaCie has not responded to this so far. Any insight sure would be appreciated. Thanks

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