I had an EZQuest 250GB external firewire drive that kept malfunctioning, created prompts in XP that the sectors weren't lined up to match XP or some such message--got it back on a warranty repair and now won't talk to the system at all. Yellow light, not the green one, stays on & that sort of thing.
I found nothing on the EZ site but before trashing the drive I wondered if it might be the circuitry inside the drive enclosure rather than the drive itself. I bought the ADS firewire drive enclosure. I took apart the external enclosure for the EZQuest drive (which taught me that all firewire drives are internal hard drives mounted in a box), mounted the drive in the ADS enclosure (jumper settings the same) and to my amazement the thing works!
Before I start archiving a large Vegas project with media onto that drive, does anyone have any cautions or warnings? Should I buy a fire extinguisher?
I found nothing on the EZ site but before trashing the drive I wondered if it might be the circuitry inside the drive enclosure rather than the drive itself. I bought the ADS firewire drive enclosure. I took apart the external enclosure for the EZQuest drive (which taught me that all firewire drives are internal hard drives mounted in a box), mounted the drive in the ADS enclosure (jumper settings the same) and to my amazement the thing works!
Before I start archiving a large Vegas project with media onto that drive, does anyone have any cautions or warnings? Should I buy a fire extinguisher?