Stealth75 Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 does winxp ship with any native drivers that allow for external hdd support? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famer Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 you should be able to install xp on the drive if thats what you like to do. if it's just for storage then xp should detect it and install the drivers for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth75 Posted January 16, 2005 Author Share Posted January 16, 2005 thats what i was thinking, one last question if I connect the drive and its formated with HSF+(Mac filesys) and xp reconizes it but it says it needs drivers, there's no way i can format or use the drive within xp? so im thinking I have to boot into nix and format it to fat32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 you should be able to delete the HFS+ partition in Disk Management and then recreate the partitions you want for XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_Broke_My_MHZ Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 Yes, WinXP and Win2000 will automatically recognize USB/firewire hard disks and install them. You will need to use disk management to format the drives and assign a letter if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth75 Posted January 17, 2005 Author Share Posted January 17, 2005 bleh i think i must of removed that with nlite didnt ever think i'd have a removable hdd or ipod lmao i suppose theres no other choice but to reinstall :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth75 Posted January 17, 2005 Author Share Posted January 17, 2005 it was just as i thought I did another install of xp left intact the removable devices, firewire drivers intact and it works fine, now i have to migrate all my settings and files to the other installation :-/. Does anyone know how to backup certain drivers and install them to another installation?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 check out Double Driver. first posted here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth75 Posted January 18, 2005 Author Share Posted January 18, 2005 I tried mydriver it worked good but its not free and looks like a win95 app, but doubledriver looks nice ill take it for a spin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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