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Boot camp / Firewire 800 / Hard Crashing / Windows

I have a brand new (bought 2 days ago) MacBook Pro 17. 10.5.6 with all updates applied. Using bootcamp assistant, I split the drive into 2 equal partitions and installed Windows XP, Service Pack 3, all current Windows updates applied (Partition formatted as NTFS). In setting up the back up, I'm having trouble with backup programs crashing while backing up to external hard drives (again, formatted as NTFS). The backups will be plugging along and then the system will just freeze completely, no keyboard, no mouse function and the only way to recover is to power off and restart. I've tried 2 different external drives (both LaCie), 2 different firewire 800 cables, 2 different backup programs (Norton Ghost 14 and SecondCopy). If I connect the same drives using USB cables, all works fine, albeit slower than firewire 800. I've even re-formatted both external drives as NTFS directly from Windows running in boot camp.

The same Firewire 800 cables are used to connect to external Mac volumes while backing up the Mac partition via TimeMachine and they work fine

Any ideas?

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, 2.93ghz, 320gb, 4gb, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Apr 11, 2009 9:09 AM

19 replies

Jan 17, 2010 7:35 AM in response to camontany

I have a similar problem with the firewire 800 in bootcamp

i got a External Firewire Sound-device and it goes on and of all the time,

searched all the internet for a solution but I can't find any.

Anyone?

Duamus

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Jan 19, 2010 4:06 AM in response to mcguirek

I am having major problems with my Macbook Pro 2.26 Ghz 13 " laptop. Running Bootcamp on Windows XP SP3, I intended to do my editing in Windows but when I try to capture video from a DV device inside Avid Xpress 5.8.4 my system freezes instantly. I have no problems with firewire hard discs.

And by the way, Apple is promoting the Intel Macs as a great platform for Windows therefore it´s their RESPONSIBILITY to fix this problem!

Jan 23, 2010 1:31 AM in response to mcguirek

i am having windows bootcamp problems with fire wire 800, the first thing is bootcamp does not like ntfs, as you should of noticed that before you format your dirve inside the blue screen it shows that the boot camp drive made by the mac os is FAT32 (not greatr i know) i am pretty sure you can do NTFS but then it is not supported by bootcamop as does not alwasy install. i could wrong, there as down side to fat32 but unless you video editing it should not be a problem, you cant haeva single file on a FAT32 system bigger than 1GB. my problem is windowws works fine, but wont fully reconise my fire wire device, i loads up the sound card in the 16883 or what ever it is called, but wont regester the WMD audio drivers in the kernol(sorry i cant spell) any one got any ideas on this???? i have followed the saffire tech help for my sound card but no use.... but for most things windows on bootcamp runs even better than a pc lol

The hatter

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Mar 20, 2010 9:57 AM in response to Community User

USB3 should do the trick once it gets more wildly adopted, though enclosures won't come cheap, and offer SATA like performance (runs off PCI-Express 1x) and Gigabyte has it on their newest motherboards (along with SATA III / 6Gb) using a common interface connection.

Even Mac Pro has poor FW800 performance (tech notes from Apple and Microsoft) and I think it is going to become 'legacy' to some extent in a couple years.

I even tried buying a PCIe FW800 card, but could not get it working and supported.

Boot camp / Firewire 800 / Hard Crashing / Windows