bugs7007 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I have an external firewire HD which I use with OSX all the time. When I switch to Vista via bootcamp first it takes about 3 minutes before Vista boots and when I finally get logged in the external hard drive is not displayed. I do hear a sound alert when I remove/attach the firewire HD. Any ideas? Vista came up at some point (I have no idea where it came from or how I can access it again) and asked me if I wanted to troubleshoot this problem by searching the web, when the search completed it informed me that the issue might be related to power management (ACPI). I don't know if I can trust the diagnostics or not but I really need to be able to access the external HD. --Sam Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43179-external-harddrive-firewire-not-accesseble-from-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da5id Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 I had the same problem. Pretty clean install of Vista on a MacBook pro, installed iSight, Wifi, Bluetooth drivers, but my external FireWire drive isn't working. Mine doesn't even make a sound when I plug it in. I wonder if it's just a driver issue - that we need to update the Firewire driver using the ones provided in Bootcamp... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43179-external-harddrive-firewire-not-accesseble-from-vista/#findComment-320204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
epsonguy Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Vista doesn't support 1394b (Firewire 800) at this time. I don't even think that it has the drivers to support 1394a at this time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43179-external-harddrive-firewire-not-accesseble-from-vista/#findComment-334718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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