OK...so I purchased a new Hitachi SATA drive (250 gb)...my Dell XPS runs Windows XP Pro SP2.
Installed it.
Upon first boot-up, a blue screen & white font runs through a diagnostic of some sort, saying that "the volume is dirty" and that the drive is formated "FAT32".
Everything else during...
Well...I've gone and bought a new computer (Dell XPS) that's running Windows XP with Service Pack 2.
KABOOM! My two LaCie 500gb (branded as "Big Disk") do NOT work with SP2. And LaCie ADMITS it on their web site....
Installed....did everything right, including trying to update drivers from...
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