External Drives not recognized

[MBX]

I don't know why Vista doesn't recognize external USB/ FW harddisks. In OS-X they appear automatically.

When i plug in the USB-disk Vista tells me it successfully installed and is ready to use. But the disk is nowhere to find in explorer or elsewhere.

What's going on? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Apple Ink]

Seems like your xHDD is HFS+ formatted!
Plug it in your Mac and press command+I. Check the "Format:" and see what is it! Win wont recognize HFS

 

[MBX]

yes that might be the case but i thought Vista could at least load and read it (but just not write on it)?

Do i need to install some tool like MacDrive so windows can recognize it?

 

[Neil321]

yes that might be the case but i thought Vista could at least load and read it (but just not write on it)?

Do i need to install some tool like MacDrive so windows can recognize it?

yep