Lacie BigDisk Extreme Drive

J.R. Hudson

J.R. Hudson

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I am having trouble accessing the lacie drive that was used to edit a film in final cut. What steps do I need to take to access what is on the drive in order for me to look at the HVX 200 P2 files?

Any thoughts?
 
turn off your computer. unplug the drive from the wall and disconnect it from your computer. hook it back up and restart.

if that doesn't work, go to device manager and click on the drive. go to preferences and click troubleshooot. you may have to uninstall it in device manager first and then restart windows for it to detect it again.
 
Wait, you say it was used to edit a final cut project? What file system does it have? Which OS are you using?
 
Nevermind

It is formatted for a MAC

I need to get a new drive, get to a mac and offload the files to a windows formatted drive.

Sigh
 
J.R. Hudson said:
Nevermind

It is formatted for a MAC

I need to get a new drive, get to a mac and offload the files to a windows formatted drive.

Sigh
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Well if it were formatted FAT32, both OS could read it. but that is a slower filesystem. But for cross-platform use, we always go with that on external drives.
 
I have no idea Mark :/

My DEVICE MANAGER reads it but it does not show up in MY COMPUTER (Where I have all my drives)

I found some info online where you can Reformat an exisiting drive,m but I can't risk losing data (P2, etc)
 
OSX uses FSH as it's file system, and XP uses NTFS. As far as I know there is no way to convert w/out losing data.

While both can read and write to FAT32, it doesn't support file sizes over 4G, which will not do much for P2 data.

I was about to tell you that I did't know any way to move this other than to move it back to P2 and then recapture on your Windows machine. NTFS formated drives would work fine in Windows but you can't write to NTFS drives in OSX, read only.

Then I found this!

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/li...write-ntfs-windows-partition-on-mac-os-x.html
 
Interesting

Thanks for the link

But damn if I am not afraid. Just cannot risk losing this info.

(There is no back up; aggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh)
 
Well, with that link you wouldn't really risk losing the data.

You would still need the Mac and another drive big enough for all your data. You would format the 2nd drive to NTFS and hack OSX to allow you to write to the 2nd drive. Then you would copy the files from the 1st FSH drive to the new 2nd NTFS drive.

When you plug the 2nd drive into your Windows machine you would see the drive and be able to use the files. In the end you would actually have your data on 2 drives.


The only other way I could think of would be copy as much as you can to P2, then recapture on a Windows machine. Then do that over and over until it is all moved.

Sucks, but look at the bright side.....you could have to print to tape and recapture in real time. Gotta love this technology. It makes everything simpler!
 
I may have a solution for you:

You can use a GNU/Linux liveCD with support for NTFS read/write (such as the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop LiveCD) to boot up your PC while the drive is connected.

You should be able to use Linux to transfer the files over to the PC, assuming of course there's enough room on the drive.

I'd be glad to help walk you through the process if you're not familiar with Linux.
 
My regular station is only 80 Gigs.

The two drives are 250 and 500 Gig.

I have another 80 Gigger, but obviously, that aint flying.
 
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