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Lacie External Hard drive with Windows XP

1650 Views 9 Replies 4 Participants Last post by ShawnSS, Apr 16, 2004

ShawnSS

Discussion Starter · Apr 12, 2004

I got a Lacie 160gig Firewire hard drive. I am running Windows XP. I hooked it up and Windows didnt recognize it. I heard about how Windows can only recognize external hard drives in 32gig sized partitions for fat32 format. I need it for both Mac and PC so thats why I need fat32. Can someone tell me if there is any way I can hook this up without having to buy more stuff like cards or software? If not what is it I need?

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-Shawn

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Moby

· #5 · Apr 13, 2004

Lacie drives aren't formatted before they go in the box to sell, so if you want a third opinion, it isn't formatted.

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Moby

· #9 · Apr 14, 2004

You can format it on either computer with fat 32 and it will be read by the other one. All you are doing is a format, you won't be creating any new partitions. How many windows xp machines have hard drives below 32gb? Not many, so how do they manage? There's nothing to manage. Just format the bloody thing in either machine and you'll have 1 unpartitioned 160gb drive, which is exactly what you want.
Sorry, got carried away.

Good luck Shawn.

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