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<blockquote data-quote="Hi Tek" data-source="post: 984060" data-attributes="member: 137073"><p>It shows as Device is working properly, drivers are up-to-date. Its recognized by Windows, the remove device icon comes up on taskbar. There is no icon in Explorer for me to access the harddrive.</p><p></p><p>Also, I formated the hard drive and changed it to "FAT32" and when I plugged it into XP & Vista, same thing, the hard drive is seen but still no icon in explorer. SO THEN, I downloaded "Paragon" formated the hard drive to "Windows NT File System" (NTFS if im correct? lol). plugged into XP today @school (an IT school might I add, which means obviously, the drivers are uptodate - we use XP home - Dell). Lol just trying to show the precautions I made. I plugged the hard drive in there today and still .. nothing.</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking of returning the LaCie and maybe giving Seagate a try? I'v seen around in the forums its a trusted brand for hard drives. But I would rather keep this one. OH and I forgot to add, when I plugged in my LaCie I went to System Preferences>NTFS for Mac OS X, I selected my hard drive and checked Access Permissions. I haven't tried plugging into A windows *Since* i selected that option. The other two options are: Compress Files & Folders and Disable Last Access Time. All 3 were unchecked, some i'm thinkingg, ..That may work if i tried it. Any ideas guys?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hi Tek, post: 984060, member: 137073"] It shows as Device is working properly, drivers are up-to-date. Its recognized by Windows, the remove device icon comes up on taskbar. There is no icon in Explorer for me to access the harddrive. Also, I formated the hard drive and changed it to "FAT32" and when I plugged it into XP & Vista, same thing, the hard drive is seen but still no icon in explorer. SO THEN, I downloaded "Paragon" formated the hard drive to "Windows NT File System" (NTFS if im correct? lol). plugged into XP today @school (an IT school might I add, which means obviously, the drivers are uptodate - we use XP home - Dell). Lol just trying to show the precautions I made. I plugged the hard drive in there today and still .. nothing. I'm thinking of returning the LaCie and maybe giving Seagate a try? I'v seen around in the forums its a trusted brand for hard drives. But I would rather keep this one. OH and I forgot to add, when I plugged in my LaCie I went to System Preferences>NTFS for Mac OS X, I selected my hard drive and checked Access Permissions. I haven't tried plugging into A windows *Since* i selected that option. The other two options are: Compress Files & Folders and Disable Last Access Time. All 3 were unchecked, some i'm thinkingg, ..That may work if i tried it. Any ideas guys? [/QUOTE]
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