Carbon recognized by Mac but not by PC

FlyingSolo

2010-01-04, 20:26 #1

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Subject: Carbon recognized by Mac but not by PC

This is Act II of previous post "Carbon not recognized by WinXP"

After reinstalling all the Rio software I could find, my PC running WinXP SP3 still cannot read the Carbon's hard disk. The PC shows it with a drive but with nothing inside. I hooked the Carbon up to my wife's Mac and everything works normally. So it appears that the problem is not the Carbon. Any guesses why a Mac would see it but not a PC?

krazykit (Administrator) 2010-01-07, 18:14 #2

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Quote by FlyingSolo on 2010-01-04, 20:26:
Any guesses why a Mac would see it but not a PC?

Besides "Windows is a piece of crap"

That being said, you shouldn't need any special software to use the Carbon on any machine, as it's just a standard removable disk.

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FlyingSolo

2010-01-07, 18:57 #3

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Thanks, krazykit. I had a Carbon a while ago that met an untimely demise. Before its death it worked just fine using Windows 2000, but then the PC stopped being able to read its disk. I upgraded my OS and got a replacement Carbon only to find that the PC still can't read the disk. It's hard to just chalk it up to Windows being a POS. Surely there's an explanation other than Macs are smarter. Maybe my PC exhausted itself with the first Carbon. hmmmm.....