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Question

LaCie Hard Drive now showing up in 'My Computer' on Windows

Jun 19, 2012 1:34AM PDT

Hey,
I'm a photographer, and I worked with another photographer these last couple days for a commercial shoot. Well, we backed everything up to her LaCie hard drive, and then she gave that to me to do the editing on the photos today.

She uses Mac and I use PC, so her harddrive is formatted for Mac. Anyway, I plug it it, and it says the hard drive was installed correctly and so on. but the disk isnt showing up in Explorer.

So I go to disk management and find it, but I cannot assign a disk drive letter to it. All it lets me do is delete the drive, or convert to a dynamic drive. Both I believe will delete all the information on the drive, which is something I obviously do not want.

Anyone know of a fix for something like this? Here is a screen capture.

http://i.imgur.com/S9GRE.jpg

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I have ideas but first are you ready?
Jun 19, 2012 1:43AM PDT

1. You state it is a backup. As such we won't lose anything if it is lost.

This frees you to try any of the titles noted at the top of this forum.

2. Maybe you only need to get at a Mac drive in Windows. Maybe there is nothing to fix but to gain access. There are a few ways such as booting up a LiveCD (no install required) of Linux and copying the files over to buying some Mac access software.

Hope this helps,
Bob

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Okay
Jun 19, 2012 2:02AM PDT

Yes, its a backup, as in we have the files on another hard drive. But I'd rather not have to even risk losing the files and having to explain my idiotic move.

So the best answer is probably downloading KNOPPIX or something, and just moving them over to another hard drive? That seems easy enough

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Last time I used UBUNTU.
Jun 19, 2012 6:01AM PDT