firewire drive not rocognized by xp

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Firewire drive is randomly recognized or not. Restart,
removing firewire and usb drivers and letting them
reinstall doesn't work, hot plugging sometimes works, and
sometimes there is no problem. I can use the drive for a
week without a problem then on a given day there is
nothing i can do to make XP recognize the drive.
There is also a problem with "delayed write failed" when
trying to back-up my drive to the firewire drive
using "DriveImage". Yes, the caching has been disabled on
all drives on the machine.

I've read all the posts I could find on similar problems
and tried all of the suggested fixes (even the crazy ones).
Any help will probably save a perfectly good external
harddrive from a severe thrashing involving massive
quantities of vulgar and offensive language.

Thanks In Advance

Lou Bruce

 

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have you enabled firewire in your system bios.... reeboot your operating system and hold down the delete key until bios screen appears