Lacie Rugged Hard Drive Not Showing Up

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.

Lacie rugged hard drive not showing up.

Check lacie external hard drive state. 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. For this click on file and then click new finder window. Most of the hdd manufacturers offer their own data recovery.

Unfortunately in that case you will need to contact a data recovery company in case the data stored on the drive is really important. If not open disk management and check the external hard drive state. Open file explorer and check if the external hard drive appears. Try disconnecting the firewire usb cable from the drive and take the drive to a quiet place.

Listen for the internal disk to speed up and then click. Now look for the drive below the remote disk. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear. Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode.

Power up the drive and put your ear next to it. Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up. Connect the lacie external hard drive to your pc via its usb cable. Follow the guidelines to make your lacie external hard drive detectable 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. Step 1 first of all look for the external hard drive in the finder window.