Firewire Drivers  


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    Firewire Drivers


    I bought this 120 gig drive and it has firewire 400 on it an my computer has the same so I plug it in and find out windows 7 does not have support for it can anyone help me here. The port is 1394a port.
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    Dogz said:
    I bought this 120 gig drive and it has firewire 400 on it an my computer has the same so I plug it in and find out windows 7 does not have support for it can anyone help me here. The port is 1394a port.

    win 7 does support 1394 it just needs a driver for the particular device. google win 7 and 1394 support then google the HD mfr for the driver.



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  3. Posts : 362
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    From what I can tell from the whitepaper from Microsoft it does support it but it does not support my Maxtor onetouch drive.
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    Also should I update my chipset drivers to get firewire working because it is on my chipset.
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