So basically im working on iMac 27'' (fall 2011), on Bootcamp Windows 7
And it WON'T read my LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt, what I am doing wrong,
Please give me a light of hope
Time Capsule-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.5), on iMac 27-inc, Mid 2011
I don't use Boot Camp, so I don't know if it includes Thunderbolt drivers.
But about a month ago Apple released a bunch of Boot Camp updates
Your Little Big Disk uses Apple Disk Utility to set up a striped array.
Windows by itself is unable to mount and read/write to this striped array.
Help is available with MacDrive Pro which will permit you to read/write to RAID-0 or RAID-1 Mac OS formatted arrays.
Alternative is to use Disk Utility to repartition and reformat your Little Big Disk as two individual drives (unstriped), and each is then usable with the Bootcamp drivers like any other Mac formatted drive.
Thank both of you guys, now LaCie FireWire I kind of understand you
1.- I googled MacDrive Pro, but what is it for?
2.- Little Big disk is 1TB and shows many stuff (pics below)
3.- What format should it be anyways?
Also as Alberto Ravasio said I downloaded an updated version of Windows drivers (with bootcamp assistant), I put all the downloaded stuff on my iOS desktop, but what should I do with the files? (pic below)
IMPORTANT:
*Little Big Disk 1TB Thunderbolt name is VFX Joshua.
*I do can change settings, options are grey because I wasn't on that window.
*Little Big Disk shows on Disk Utility (Erase and Raid options):
http://gyazo.com/b01ce5a8f44738da396f08448e5487ae
http://gyazo.com/dcb6bd1b225970eb95b6ffea538a51cc
*MAIN Little Big Disk icon on Disk Utility (on this one I CAN'T change Format or RAID type)
http://gyazo.com/c1d3a7c1635f1866aa850ae278ac8f65
*One of the Two Partitions of Little Big Disk (Erase and Partition options):
Name and Format options on PARTITION Tab are blocked.
http://gyazo.com/6d672a32050f1adef7f0a81ecbf2b0dc
http://gyazo.com/dbeca27f7be2f7c5bb312618cea1ad82
Also important, the format options on ERASE tab are:
Mac OS Extended (Four types on this one)
MS-DOS (FAT)
exFAT
*One of Two RAID Slices (Erase and RAID options):
Raid set Name, Format and RAID type on RAID tab are blocked.
http://gyazo.com/6e2f311994bbda6a4a78f6111eacd812
http://gyazo.com/6fb8f5e5dbff6b05534195bde4bbc12c
Also important, the format options on ERASE tab are:
Mac OS Extended (Four types on this one)
MS-DOS (FAT)
exFAT
UPDATE:
I updated Bootcamp drivers, when I conect lacie the sound of "Disk conected" plays, even shows up on drivers, but no on my PC, hard to explain, pictures below.
The two selected are the two disk that LaCie 1TB has:
http://gyazo.com/af81323ebd5414eb911ddeb8a598dbad
The Disk doesnt appear (YOSHI is my Usb, not LaCie):
http://gyazo.com/573e00a7180c9f7b35c5dd53d4c1369d
Windows cannot read the disk because, as LaCie FireWire pointed out, you created a striped array with Disk Utility.
MacDrive Pro, installs drivers in Windows, allowing Windows to see the two separates 500MB disks as one big drive of 1TB.
Thank you both, I installed MacDrive Pro 9 and I just see 1TB disk.
Since Idk anything about speeds can you tell me how fast is the first disk (first pic) compared to the second?
http://gyazo.com/5fa9d550335046838ffaff8fe057154f
http://gyazo.com/bd7e6dc12680131662516eea4b0dc4f5
And what does mean the percentaje next to the Letter of the disk? (on the first image it says "J: 19%..." and the second is 0%
You have 2 partitions on LaCie Little Big Disk, right?
LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt specs
Speed test on J: is really good
Speed test on F: is 1/10 of J: but do not ask me why 🙂 (maybe because of the double partition?)
About the percentage I guess is the amount of space used.
Your Little Big Disk if originally in the factory settings is 1000MB or 1TB.
It is showing as one large 1000MB volume (J:) with 953GB available to you (formatted size is always less than physical size due to formatting, and whether counting 1MB as 1024 or 1000). In your benchmark it is numbered (5)
The other drive is also named 1000MB volume, but this is only a name, and it is identified in your system as (F:) drive letter, but much smaller is size - 149GB. It is also numbered the same (5)
I don't know why you are seeing this smaller disk unless you also have a 2nd drive connected. Do you also have anything else connected? USB perhaps, and for some reason you are measuring two different disks as you have two different drive letters?
First volume is likely your Little Big Disk. Great performance. Percentage indicated is how full the drive is. It shows 19% of your 1TB disk is occupied with files and folders.
2nd picture is of another volume, showing that it is almost empty. with less than 1% occupied.
In any case, confirm all is OK under OS X first, then proceed with your tests using Boot Camp.
As the other writer noted, MacDrive Pro is a driver installed under Windows that permits read/write access to Mac formatted drives. MacDrive and MacDrive Pro are quite similar. MacDrive Pro adds capability to mount and use RAID-0/RAID-1 volumes created with Disk Utility.
Thank you both 🙂 for taking the time to deal with me xD Yea "J" is Little Big Disk 1TB, and the other is my old external HDD, Hopefully someone with the same problem will find this post much helpful.
LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt WON'T work on Bootcamp Windows 7
