Lacie Rugged Thunderbolt SSD in Bootcamp

[Cryoglobulin]

Hi all, I am running windows 7 as bootcamp on a mid2012 macbook pro retina. I recently purchased the Lacie Rugged Thunderbolt 250 gb SSD. When I plug it via thunderport cable, windows 7 does not recognize it. Is there any solution for this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[imaketouchtheme]

Here you go:

http://manuals.lacie.com/en/manuals/rugged-thunderbolt-usb3/drivers

 

[Cryoglobulin]

I tried that, doesn't work. When I plug it in, it is not recognized at all.

 

[imaketouchtheme]

I tried that, doesn't work. When I plug it in, it is not recognized at all.

I think that article is saying you can only use USB 3.0 rather than Thunderbolt. Luckily an external hard drive won't benefit from using Thunderbolt vs USB 3.0 regardless due to data transfer limitations.

 

[Cryoglobulin]

Okay, I was hoping that there was a way thunderbolt would be recognized in bootcamp.

 

[g4cube]

Okay, I was hoping that there was a way thunderbolt would be recognized in bootcamp.

You can't hotplug due to limitations of Bootcamp.

Make sure the Thunderbolt drive is connected before booting into Windows.

Should be able to see the drive within Disk Management under Windows.

 

[Cryoglobulin]

I tried having it plugged in when booting but I just get a black screen with a single dos underscore flashing. I looked on this forum and a guy had similar issue in late 2013 but no solution was posted.

 

[g4cube]

Is drive formatted correctly for Windows? ie NTFS or fat32?

Does drive mount under OS X?

 

[Cryoglobulin]

Yea I did format to ntcs, havent tried in mac ox