Promblem with using two external firewire drives

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jwhit

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16. February 2006 @ 11:05

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I have a Maxtor 200g OneTouch external firewire drive (G:) and I recently added a 120g in an enclosure capable of USB2/Fiewire. My problem is this: If I remove the second drive (M:) (through the safely remove hardware icon) and try to start it up again later, Windows denies access to the original firewire drive (G:) unless I reboot the machine and then everything works fine until I remove one. It also works fine with no conflicts whatsoever if the second drive is hooked up to USB2, but I prefer firewire. Any ideas??

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C: 250gig WD CAVIAR
F: 160gig WD CAVIAR SE
G: 200gig MAXTOR ONETOUCH EXT. USB2/FIREWIRE
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jwhit

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19. February 2006 @ 12:21

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Does anyone have any suggestions? Haven't gotten any responses......

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SypherTek

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20. February 2006 @ 03:10

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it could be conflicting because the hard drives are of different brands, cant really think of a solution for this one except for the obvious, just put up with USB 2.0, theres no real difference in the speed of the 2 anyway

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