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Message: <blockquote data-quote="green6767" data-source="post: 373943" data-attributes="member: 19341">I just purchased a 250GB My Book Premium Edition.  Its FireWire400 and USB compatible and also compatible with Mac...so it says.  Of course I wanted to use Firewire as the connection method due to speed and so on.  I have never used FireWire before so thougt this would be a good learning experience...not so much.  External drive WILL NOT mount with FireWire connnection.  So I tried USB and it mounted right away, so I formatted the ext. drive for mac instead of FAT32 and properly disconnected the USB once I verified that using Super Duper it would work for a backup drive.  Plugged in FireWire connection again...NOTHING.  This is my second ext. HDD in 3 weeks and I feel as if Im doomed to find something that will work for me.  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Dallas</blockquote>