Lacie Rugged Hard Drive Not Showing Up

Here you can see what the drive looks like to windows.

Lacie rugged hard drive not showing up.

Try disconnecting the firewire usb cable from the drive and take the drive to a quiet place. Follow the guidelines to make your lacie external hard drive detectable again. Step 1 first of all look for the external hard drive in the finder window. If you have followed all of these steps and the drive is still not recognized shut down your computer wait 3 to 5 minutes restart your computer and try again.

Step 2 if the external drive is not there make sure that usb cable is properly plugged in the external hard drive and the port. If you right click on the lacie drive shown you may have the option to format the partition s ntfs for windows or you could convert the entire disk to a mbr disk. Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive. Now look for the drive below the remote disk.

Listen for the internal disk to speed up and then click. Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up. With the drive connected open disk management search for computer management disk management. Power up the drive and put your ear next to it.

Unfortunately in that case you will need to contact a data recovery company in case the data stored on the drive is really important. Most of the hdd manufacturers offer their own data recovery. If not open disk management and check the external hard drive state. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear.

For this click on file and then click new finder window. Connect the lacie external hard drive to your pc via its usb cable.