Lacie Hard Drive drivers?

[MikeMoss]

Hi

I just connected a Lacie d2 Quadra 500 gig hard drive to my computer, running Windows XP. It formatted fine and is connecter via a Fire Wire connection.

The drive is working but during the initial start up I got a message that said that the hardware was not installed properly and may not work correctly.

When I look in Device Manager it show a yellow exclamation mark and indicates that the drivers for this device are not installed.

The disk that came with the drive has no drivers on it.

I looked online and couldn’t find anyplace that lists drivers for this device.

I uninstalled the drive and rebooted my computer and it just did the same thing again.
The device works but I still get messages saying that the drivers are not installed.

I had another external hard drive installed on this same connection and didn’t get any messages like this. That drive is now connecter via USB until I get another Fire Wire card.

Does anyone know what’s going on?

My Windows update are all up to date and this is a new reinstall of Windows (a week ago).

Mike

 

[BadBigBen]

Possible an ieee 1349 driver corruption within XP itself, or a flaky firewire card...

the drive itself does not need drivers as XP uses generic versions for them...

without knowing what hardware (the ieee 1349), I can't direct you to a replacement driver... but you could deinstall the device through device manager and reboot to see if XP will reinstall it...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[MikeMoss]

Hi

I did remove it through device manager and reboot.
It reinstalled it with the same messages i.e. ...
“Your device had problems and may not work correctly.”

When I go to device manager it still says that the drivers for this device are not installed.

In spite of this the drive seems to work fine.
I would just like to get rid of the error message.

I did not get these messages when I had the Maxtor drive connected to the same port.

I have the 1394 drivers that came on the disk with the Maxtor drive.
I tried directing it to these and telling it to install the drivers.
It just says it cannot find the software, so I have no idea what it is looking for.

One other thing, my Maxtor drive shows up under the Disk Drive category in Device Manager, the Lacie shows up as “Other Devices”. Why doesn’t it recognize it as a hard drive? Maybe this is the real problem?

Mike

 

[MikeMoss]

Hi

An update

When I open the drive in disk management and click on properties, driver details, it shows the Windows drivers.

In Device Manager if I do the same thing I get the message that there are no drivers installed.

Weird, the only place it isn't recognized is in Device Manager. It appears everyplace else as a normal drive.

Mike