fire wire on windows 7

[Seraph301083]

hello again.

now that windows 7 (64) is working properly another question came up. Does win7 support fire wire because my external MyBook does not mount when I connect it to my iMac with fire wire 800.

does anyone know a solution for this?

[spinnerlys]

Windows does support Firewire, but it may be that your external HDD is formatted with the HFS+ file system Mac OS uses, which Windows can't read or write to without additional software like MacDrive (has a trial version working for 6 days or so).

[Seraph301083]

hmm.. it seems to recognize my macintosh hd because I can browse all my mac files from here. but maybe it just works for the main Hd and not for external drives..

[spinnerlys]

If you have Snow Leopard, than reading of the HFS+ formatted Mac OS X volume is now supported, but no external HDDs as it seems.
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/05/06/snow-leopards-boot-camp-includes-hfs-windows-drivers/

Has the drive also a USB port which you can try?

Maybe the Firewire driver for Windows 7 doesn't work correctly, as Windows 7 isn't officially supported via Boot Camp until January 2010.

[Seraph301083]

now I installed macdrive and it works, there are still some hickups but mostly it does the job.

turns out the HFS+ support on win7 only includes the main harddrives mac partition... and I was already celebrating ...