Windows 7 External Hardrive problem

MacMiniBoy · 16 May 2010 at 21:49

I recently got one of those new dell 17" Touch Screen Laptops with WIndows 7 x64 pro

I also got an Icy box eSata/USB Hardrive Dock, I formatted a 500GB 3.5" drive and used it as a backup for my system.

Tonight I have tried plugging it via USB & eSata and Explorer wont see it, it showed up in device manager.

The funny thing is if I plug it into my macbook it see's it and I can access the files :confused:

So this aint a hardware error this is the so called awesome windows 7 :mad:

Please help

kevrae · 16 May 2010 at 22:08

when you formatted it on your mac did you format it as FAT32 or HFS as if it was the latter windows cannot read it as standard. You could use a bit of software called macdrive, i have used it on multiple occasions and found it to be very capable.

MacMiniBoy · 16 May 2010 at 22:14

I didnt format it on my mac, i said my mac could read it.

all formatting was done on the Dell, it worked, now it doesnt

kevrae · 16 May 2010 at 22:17

sorry my bad misunderstood.

PistolPete · 17 May 2010 at 13:26

Did you go into Disk Management to check if it was visible there? Maybe you needed to assign it a drive letter? Sometimes when I plug my external HDD in (and it's never been near a Mac) Windows doesn't always assign it a drive letter.

shahpor · 17 May 2010 at 19:03

Does it display in the Disk Manager as an Invalid Dynamic disk?

If so, I had the same problem, and solved it by doing the following:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=191006