Problems with Lacie Firewire and windows 7 x64

Hi

I have a lacie f.a. by porsche 500GB fire wire drive which i have partitioned in to 3 parts.

I was previously running windows 7 pro x86 and every time i switched on my lacie drive all 3 partitions showed up pretty much instantaneously.

however, now i have switched to x64. first i had to go to Disk Management to import the HDD as it was listed as a foreign list. this works fine and i can access my drive fine.

however, now, every time i switch on the drive it take between 5-10 minutes to discover all partitions (however, one always shows up straight away).

any suggestions as to why this could be and how to alleviate the issue?

LaCie has a go by on their website which gives detailed instructions on getting your Firewire drive, the example uses a 400Gb LaCie drive but your 500Gb should be no different. LaCie - Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche - FireWire 400

that's great!

seems to have done the trick for now..... thanks

forge13 said:

that's great!

seems to have done the trick for now..... thanks

Would you be so kind as to mark the thread closed/solved? Thanks.

no worries...um i'm newbie...how would i mark it? sorry