Just bought this LaCie Big Disk Quadra and it doesn't seem to work... I've tried it on 3 different computers and none will recognize the drive. The new found hardware wizard fails every time. The "button" sees it, but disk management does not. Device manager sees it, but fails when I update the driver. I also can not see it under My Computer. I have no way of formatting the drive or renaming it. The setup assistant doesn't launch. I've installed all the software on the disk and even tried the firmware update off the website.
I'm at a loss.
Nope, all I have to test on is XP.Sup wrote:
Can you try it on a system with different OS?
The little "Button" program that it came with sees it, but there's no tools to format the drive, it's strictly some sort of back-up program. I can't figure out how to get the volume mounted or formatted so windows can recognize it. They keep mentioning a set-up assistant program that's supposed to launch automatically, but it never runs and it's nowhere on the disk when I explore it. When I search for new hardware, it sees it and says it's working properly, but when I try to update or install a driver for it, it fails to find one and cannot complete the set-up wizard. The driver is also not on the disk or their support website. Computer management comes up blank as well (can't see the drive to do anything with it)[TUF]Catbox wrote:
Is the disk formatted?
check cable? Try another cable...
Did you do a hardware search?
Can you look in device manager and see if the usb devices are working properly?
Last edited by King_County_Downy (2009-07-12 13:34:52)
This is exactly what I was thinking but couldn't confirm.jaymz9350 wrote:
I'm pretty sure NTFS can only have up to 2 TB partition size.
Good idea, I could try that... I'm thinking it's a max file size thing though....Sup wrote:
maybe you could make partitions in Win install setup. Pop your XP cd in and give it a go
You may be able to set it up with 2 partitions though. I don't think the limit has to do with physical drive size, just the size of the partition. Otherwise you may well be SOL in XP.King_County_Downy wrote:
Good idea, I could try that... I'm thinking it's a max file size thing though....Sup wrote:
maybe you could make partitions in Win install setup. Pop your XP cd in and give it a go
I'll be back online in a few hours... going bowling with the gf
Thanks for the halp
let her win a couple timesKing_County_Downy wrote:
Good idea, I could try that... I'm thinking it's a max file size thing though....Sup wrote:
maybe you could make partitions in Win install setup. Pop your XP cd in and give it a go
I'll be back online in a few hours... going bowling with the gf
Thanks for the halp
Looks like I'll need to bring it into work with me then. I have a Vista box here I can use to format it. Maybe once it's partitioned (3x1Gig partitions). it'll work... I hope so for his sake. He just spent $450 on it lulz.Bertster7 wrote:
It's not an NTFS issue. It's an MBR issue.
32-Bit XP only supports physical drives upto 2TB. If you had a 64-Bit version it should work. Then you could create multiple MBR partitions or a single GUID partition. You need XP x64 or Vista or Server 2003/2008. If you want to boot from the drives you need some funny hardware that runs EFI, like an Itanium or Intel based Mac.
I dunno if that'd work. Microsoft do say that 32-bit XP is limited to 2TB physical drives....King_County_Downy wrote:
Looks like I'll need to bring it into work with me then. I have a Vista box here I can use to format it. Maybe once it's partitioned (3x1Gig partitions). it'll work... I hope so for his sake. He just spent $450 on it lulz.Bertster7 wrote:
It's not an NTFS issue. It's an MBR issue.
32-Bit XP only supports physical drives upto 2TB. If you had a 64-Bit version it should work. Then you could create multiple MBR partitions or a single GUID partition. You need XP x64 or Vista or Server 2003/2008. If you want to boot from the drives you need some funny hardware that runs EFI, like an Itanium or Intel based Mac.
Unfortunately it looks like he might be out of luck....The maximum partition (and disk) size is a function of the operating system version. Windows XP and the original release of Windows Server 2003 have a limit of 2TB per physical disk, including all partitions. For Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows XP x64 edition, and later versions, the maximum raw partition of 18 exabytes can be supported. (Windows file systems currently are limited to 256 terabytes each.)