Problems with Lacie Firewire and windows 7 x64

[forge13]

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?

 

[fishnbanjo]

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

 

[DarkStar GT]

I have a similar problem. The disk partitions do appear after a few minutes. After that, the data transfer rate is very slow.

But the disk works fine if I boot into Windows XP SP3 (32-bit) on the same hardware. So the disk firmware seems Ok.

This page might be handy:
LaCie is the premier manufacturer of high quality digital storage.

 

[forge13]

that's great!

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

 

[fishnbanjo]

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.

 

[forge13]

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

 

[DarkStar GT]

click the warning triangle in the top-left of your original post and type "Solved" in the form, then click [Send report]