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bizarre Vista Firewire copy problem

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gopherscanswim

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I've been running Vista since late Feb/early March without any trouble until my friend told me on his new computer I helped him build that he couldn't transfer files over firewire from an external DVD drive (an older LaCie). He is running Vista Home Premium 64 and I have Ultimate 64.

I tested my external DVD drive (Plextor PX708-A in a Mapower enclosure) and firewire didn't work, giving the following error. USB did work.
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I also decided to test my Sandisk Ultra firewire compact flash card reader and I got this error:
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I'm running off an Asus P5B-E board and he has a P5B deluxe I think. I have an E6600 and he has an E6420 and we both have 4gb RAM.

This is a nuisance, and a surprise (although fortunately one that doesn't really affect my usage of the computer). I haven't heard of this anywhere before so I don't know if it's a Vista & driver interaction problem or what. I have been able to transfer files from the card reader using software transfer like Canon ZoomBrowser or in Adobe Bridge but both of the above transfers failed for both of us within Windows Explorer which leads me to think it's something about how the Vista file browser handles copies, since apparently a workaround is to do the transfers through the command line (not an ideal solution). If files are less than 1 mb or so they usually work, but any bigger and they fail.

Can anyone offer any help? Let me know if I left out any crucial information.
 
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