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Originally Posted by David Franklin The other thing I guess is to check you have an external firewire port (you are pretty much assured to have external USB ports!). The port looks like an very elongated letter 'D' and may either at the front or the back. See the attached image. |
Just to make things more complicated there are two types of fire wire connection, big and small to get really technical.
Your pic shows the big one, but the small one found on laptops/camera is a square hole about the third of the size of a USB socket and a little indent to make sure cable connector is in the right way.
I got caught out by this as my travelling laptop has 2 USBs and a fire wire connection and I was going to use the fire wire for one of my external HDs and discovered [whilst away] that the Fire wire cable that came with that HD was for big comectors and I had a small connection. The HD was USB as well, so nothing insurmountable.