Boot Camp, XP SP3, and Firewire
Howdy friends.
I seem to be having an issue with my external firewire drive. Well, the issue isn't WITH the drive, but rather, the drive seems to be causing an issue with Windows. The best place to start, I guess, would be the beginning.
I partitioned my 80GB harddrive right down the middle, leaving ~37GB for OSX and Windows. I installed Windows XP SP2 (without issue). During this time, the external firewire drive was powered on, and plugged in (which, by the way, is formatted as HFS+). After the installation, I booted into Windows, installed the Boot Camp drivers, and then the Boot Camp update (rebooting after each). The firewire drive was still plugged in and powered on. I installed SP3 via the Windows Update, and when I rebooted, I got stuck at the Windows loading screen (with the blue bar scrolling by).
At first I figured there was so post-installation work going on, but after 10, and then 15 minutes, I figured something was wrong. I force powered off the laptop and restarted it, this time in Safe Mode. Safe Mode seemed to be working fine, so I restarted in normal mode, but got the same thing, stuck at the loading screen. This time, however, I noticed that none of my peripherals were powering on. I unplugged all of them and restarted. What do you know, it boots right up. As for peripherals, I have one USB hub that has my mouse, keyboard, and printer, and then the external firewire drive. In an effort to isolate the problem, I plugged only the firewire drive in, and restarted. Stuck at the loading screen. Ok, I unplugged the drive, and plugging in my USB hub. Windows starts right up.
Once in Windows I installed the latest version of MacDrive, and plugged in my firewire drive to make sure there wasn't an issue with the hard drive itself, but everything was readable and there were no issues I could see.
The question I pose to you all now is, is this a known issue? I searched around and couldn't find anything similar, but I have a tendency to miss obvious things. Are there any fixes? Patches to apply? Drivers to install? I suppose I should also mention that with the drive plugged in, OSX boots up just fine.
Any and all help is appreciated!
-Pete
I seem to be having an issue with my external firewire drive. Well, the issue isn't WITH the drive, but rather, the drive seems to be causing an issue with Windows. The best place to start, I guess, would be the beginning.
I partitioned my 80GB harddrive right down the middle, leaving ~37GB for OSX and Windows. I installed Windows XP SP2 (without issue). During this time, the external firewire drive was powered on, and plugged in (which, by the way, is formatted as HFS+). After the installation, I booted into Windows, installed the Boot Camp drivers, and then the Boot Camp update (rebooting after each). The firewire drive was still plugged in and powered on. I installed SP3 via the Windows Update, and when I rebooted, I got stuck at the Windows loading screen (with the blue bar scrolling by).
At first I figured there was so post-installation work going on, but after 10, and then 15 minutes, I figured something was wrong. I force powered off the laptop and restarted it, this time in Safe Mode. Safe Mode seemed to be working fine, so I restarted in normal mode, but got the same thing, stuck at the loading screen. This time, however, I noticed that none of my peripherals were powering on. I unplugged all of them and restarted. What do you know, it boots right up. As for peripherals, I have one USB hub that has my mouse, keyboard, and printer, and then the external firewire drive. In an effort to isolate the problem, I plugged only the firewire drive in, and restarted. Stuck at the loading screen. Ok, I unplugged the drive, and plugging in my USB hub. Windows starts right up.
Once in Windows I installed the latest version of MacDrive, and plugged in my firewire drive to make sure there wasn't an issue with the hard drive itself, but everything was readable and there were no issues I could see.
The question I pose to you all now is, is this a known issue? I searched around and couldn't find anything similar, but I have a tendency to miss obvious things. Are there any fixes? Patches to apply? Drivers to install? I suppose I should also mention that with the drive plugged in, OSX boots up just fine.
Any and all help is appreciated!
-Pete
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2), Windows XP SP3 w/ Boot Camp 2.1
