External Hard Drive works with USB but not Firewire

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> "TargetPractice31785" <TargetPractice31785@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message news:6B308B9D-48E7-49FD-895D-0CF8A7D14D12@microsoft.com...

> > I have a BUSlink external hard drive which supports both USB 2.0 and
> > Firewire. When I hook it up as USB it works perfectly fine. When I hook
> > it
> > up as firewire, the device manager sees it, I am even given the option to
> > safely remove it. But it does not show up in my computer and when I go to
> > disk management, it is not seen at all. That is the general problem, if
> > you
> > need any specifics just ask. I just want to know how to get the external
> > hard drive to work on firewire. Also, it worked fine before on the same
> > machine when I was running XP. I did a clean install of Vista Ultimate,
> > and
> > poof, I run into the problems listed above.

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> This sounds like a driver issue. Vista is a bit hit and miss when it comes
> to supporting Firewire 1394 devices. Have you looked at BUSlink website to
> see if there are any updated drivers for your model?
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> Rob
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> Dell Dimension 8300 Desktop
> P4 3.0GHz
> 1GB RAM
> Windows Vista Ultimate 32Bit
> ATI Radeon 9800 XT
> Creative SB Audigy 2
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> i did some research through HP, and they finally pointed me towards a
> Microsoft KB article referring to firewire devices not enumerating
> properly
> with vista. It had me attempt a registry edit to fix the problem, but it
> still did not fix the problem.
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