HI im glad i can get info for Windows 7 here. I see a lot of people here complain about the Firewire connection in Windows 7 i heard Vista and W7 don't recognize any firewire you actually see the adapter only but not the HD in device manager and none of my hard drives can or be turned on or recognized. IS IT TRUE Microsoft TOOK OUT FIREWIRE FOR GOOD OR THERE IS SOMETHING CAN BE DONE OR GO AROUND IT SOMEHOW PLEASE I'M SURE THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE FACING THIS PROBLEM OUT THERE PLEASE HELP???????? I need to see my personal files family pictures which are stored in to my firewire HD'S