Re: Trouble formating external harddrive

I had the exact same problem this week after installing a Lacie d2 Big Disk
Extreme connected to a SIIG Firewire 800 PCI-Express card in my Dell
Precision Workstation also running WinXP Pro SP2.

The fix was removing the driver supplied by SIIG. Apparently SP2 has native
drivers for Firewire 800 cards and does not require the card manufacturer's
driver to work properly. In my case, the drivers conflicted causing the
problem that I could not format and partition my new Lacie drive.

Once I deleted the SIIG driver and rebooted, all was fine.

Bud James
N. Wales, PA

"Treeman" wrote:

>
> Frank Wrote:
> > Recently purchased a Lacie 160gb Fire wire External Harddrive. I am
> > having
> > trouble formating the drive from FAT 32 to NTFS.
> >
> > I do the usually Disk Management process, which takes forever and then
> > when
> > its almost done I get this message
> >
> > Logical Disk Manager service process has encountered a problem and
> > needs to
> > close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
> >
> > C:\DOCUME~1\FRANKG~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER72f6.dir00\dmadmin.exe.mdmp
> >
> > C:\DOCUME~1\FRANKG~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER72f6.dir00\appcompat.txt
> >
> >
> >
> > szAppName : dmadmin.exe szAppVer : 2600.2180.503.0
> >
> > szModName : ifsutil.dll szModVer : 5.1.2600.0 offset :
> > 00004560
> >
> > its driving me nuts my Firewire card is by Q-STOR and is brand new....
>
> Dear Frank,
> After my update to SP2 my Maxtor f.wire drive quit working also.
> Drive managment, disk manager would hang, then I would get this error:
>
> "Drive is unreadable, 0 bytes, 0 data, this device is working
> properly."
>
> My DV camera (ilink aka firewire device) quit being recognised also.
> Try connecting another known good working f.wire device, and if it
> doesn't work PM me. ;)
> Best,
> Treeman
>
>
> --
> Treeman
>
.

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