re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues Monday, August 11, 2003 at 7:00 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Patrick (2 messages posted) I have apparently a similar problem. I have a Maxtor firewire hard drive that worked fine for the longest time but while transferring a large amount of files (about 1 gig) over to it one day XP stopped recognizing it as a drive. The best I can get when powering it up and down is an icon in my computer with a red exclamation mark followed by: "F:/ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted or that you are connected to the internet or network and then try again. If it still cannot be located the information might have been moved to a different location." I've powered it down and powered it back up - no dice; tried reinstalling the firewire card - negative. The card works (verified with a digital camcorder) and the drive works (loaded up perfectly on another computer with Windows ME). This is terribly frustrating and the MS board is not useful. ANY help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. On Tuesday, August 5, 2003 at 8:35 am, nigew wrote: >Just seen this: - >http://www.dvboard.com/archive/dvboard_2001_1/1975.html >I can't for the life of me see why this would make any difference in a Plug-n-play >system buy I'll try it later. It seems that the way forward may be to look at DirectX >FAQ's, as history seems to show that the problem was resolved with version 8.1a but >is back again with 9. 9b is now out, so I will download and try it. Have checked >for XP hotfixes and not found anything related. Maybe later... >One suggestion I read was to try a different cable! >I'll keep looking. >I have Matrox Marvel which is analogue, which only works in NT4 and 98. I have an >external USB2 & Firewire Caddy with DVD-RW so want to use this and the camera under >XP and do without 98. Both the camera and the caddy will not work with firewire ..Yet >:-) >nigew > Written in response to: re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (nigew: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 at 8:35 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (playerx: Fri, Apr 11, 2003, 4:50 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (Matt Melashenko: Fri, Apr 11, 2003, 7:51 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (playerx: Fri, Apr 11, 2003, 7:58 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (Bob Harris: Sat, Apr 12, 2003, 5:56 am) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (playerx: Sat, Apr 12, 2003, 4:33 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (Mark Mc: Fri, Jul 18, 2003, 10:04 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (corey: Tue, Jul 22, 2003, 7:27 am) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (playerx: Tue, Jul 22, 2003, 12:23 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (Tyler: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 9:48 am) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (rav: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 7:04 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (nigew: Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 6:02 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (playerx: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 3:00 am) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (nigew: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 8:35 am) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (Patrick: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 7:00 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (Javier: Thu, Dec 15, 2005, 11:50 am) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (playerx: Thu, Dec 15, 2005, 4:31 pm) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (Tester: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 2:01 am) re: Firewire/IEEE1394 Storage Device Issues (playerx: Thu, Dec 15, 2005, 4:33 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum