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LaCie drive not accessible

Feb 22, 2007 12:17AM PST

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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Ouch.
Feb 22, 2007 12:33AM PST

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

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In re: Lacie drive
Feb 22, 2007 1:32AM PST

Thanks for the advice.I've cruised these forums for a while and I know your very knowledgeable. I'll retry with USB 2. thanks again

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LaCie drive not accessible
Mar 4, 2007 12:14PM PST

The LaCie NAS can only be formatted in either EXT3 or FAT32 (default from factory). If you format it in NTFS it will not be able to write to the drive. It is a linux based system and NTFS is still doubtful in current linux kernal of 2.6 while LaCie has a kernal of 2.4. Go to www.lacie.com and search FAQs for confirmation of what I am saying to you.

To to LaCie and enter administration and reformat disk to FAT32. This will solve your problems with writing. You do need to know that FAT32 has a limit of 4GB blocks so backup will need to know it is FAT32. I got report of NTFS in MY Computer which really messed things up. However, when I changed Acronis to write blocks less than 4GB all was well.