I have a Maxtor external Firewire drive that is specifically for Macs. Is it possible to bomb the firmware into oblivion and make Windows recognize it as a mass storage device? Plugging it in does nothing but confuzzle Windoze.
External hard drive question
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Check the file system - reformat it to fat32 and almost any OS will read and write it.
If its a big HDD you'll need something like this:
http://www.partedmagic.com/
To make a huge single FAT32 partition.
That's the issue...Windows doesn't recognize it...at all. Not as a drive, just as an unknown Firewire device.
Try to access it with parted magic boot CD from a PC.
Try installing macdrive 6 on the pc and see if it recognizes it then. I use macdrive on my windows machines to enable access to my mac formatted NAS.
In other filesystem news, Linus points out HFS is FTL - OSX needs bootable ZFS:
Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown
Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown
Trying Macdrive...I just barely re-plugged it back in. Windows picks it up as a "Maxtor 1394 storage front-panel", and it can't locate any drivers. AFAIK there are no generic Firewire storage drivers for Windows, and Maxtor/Seagate doesn't have any as this shipped as a Mac-only drive.
Firewire does NOT behave like USB in Windoze...you can't plug in anything and have it recognize the storage space on it.
I may just rip the drive out of it and plug it in as an internal. It'll serve the same purpose (backup).
Firewire does NOT behave like USB in Windoze...you can't plug in anything and have it recognize the storage space on it.
I may just rip the drive out of it and plug it in as an internal. It'll serve the same purpose (backup).
Know where I can find one before I go Dr. Frankenstein with my jeweler's screwdriver? Everything I've read says XP has some already, but it's not pulling any up.
Sorry I don't know much about the model/brand.
If it was mine I would just rip out the drive and use one of those $20 multitype USB drive adapters they sell at newegg.com
Or you could buy a antec MX-1 if your computer has SATA for about $40-50. If you have the right chipset, bios option, and driver installed in windows you can hotswap eSATA for internal drive speeds and you still have a USB port for regular computers that don't have eSATA.
If it was mine I would just rip out the drive and use one of those $20 multitype USB drive adapters they sell at newegg.com
Or you could buy a antec MX-1 if your computer has SATA for about $40-50. If you have the right chipset, bios option, and driver installed in windows you can hotswap eSATA for internal drive speeds and you still have a USB port for regular computers that don't have eSATA.
Yeah, I just opened it up...actually an IDE drive. Glorious. I don't actually need an external, so I just (after digging around for a long while to find an IDE cable...my machine is entirely SATA) plugged it in and formatted it as FAT32 with partmagic. Now to find a decent backup utility...
See:
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1944981&postcount=5
In the example X is your new internal drive letter
Oooh! Ghetto BASIC programs! I like your style...It will do until Time Machine takes over
Its super fast - only copies over new or modified files. My personal backup script is 230 bytes - can't beat that...Oooh! Ghetto BASIC programs! I like your style...It will do until Time Machine takes over
I'm digging it - nice example of KISS. Going to be Hackintoshing with Leopard here shortly and may have to nuke the Raptor...
Best to experiment with new OS in VMware Workstation until you got it down and are sure you want it. Especially a good idea with a hacked OS:
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/
So I may just have ****ed up my data drive.
I did the backup beforehand, but nothing is showing up on my backup. The space is taken, however. Yes...I'm viewing hidden files, but this **** is not showing up in explorer. I'm about to die. If I've lost everything...
How I ran the program:
I did the backup beforehand, but nothing is showing up on my backup. The space is taken, however. Yes...I'm viewing hidden files, but this **** is not showing up in explorer. I'm about to die. If I've lost everything...
How I ran the program:
edit: I downloaded some freaky german file recovery freeware util, and it sees the files - thank god...
I don't want to see anything described as "freaky german."
You forgot abort. I never understood what the difference between abort and fail was...then again, I was five.
Partition Magic isn't reformatting the data drive after the OSX installer fvcked it up. Grrrr.
F-Partition Magic
Are you Gparted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Knoppix has decent tools too:
http://www.knoppix.org/
I TOLD you to use VMware until you made sure everything worked to your satisfaction...
Did you use http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1 from Convar?
That's the one. Having a bit of difficulty.
PC Inspector is a piece of ****. It works, but I need to copy every individual folder over individually or it ****s itself.
Other suggestions? I may boot into Ubuntu or Knoppix and see if they pick the stuff up...PC Inspector does NOT see it as deleted, it sees it as on the drive, btw.
Other suggestions? I may boot into Ubuntu or Knoppix and see if they pick the stuff up...PC Inspector does NOT see it as deleted, it sees it as on the drive, btw.
Well its a freebie program - I haven't use that one myself but I know friends who have used it on flash memory for digital camera.
I've never used knoppix or ubuntu liveCDs for file recovery.
Another program I have use for partition also has various disk utilities:
http://partedmagic.com/
I've never used knoppix or ubuntu liveCDs for file recovery.
Another program I have use for partition also has various disk utilities:
http://partedmagic.com/