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 external hard drive not showing up mac.
So i am at a loss right now and do not know if i bought another lacie ext drive if that would work.
Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed.
While the external hard drive connected to the windows computer or mac and the device did not show up.
Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive.
How to fix external hard drive not recognized.
If the lacie setup assistant is not provided on the drive depending on the model your hard drive is formatted mac extended hfs windows fat32 or windows ntfs.
As an external harddrive it has worked just fine with no fuss.
Finally if your drive is online and formatted but doesn t show a drive letter next to its name right click the volume and choose change drive letter and paths to add a drive letter.
Don t worry the next guide we will show you the best solution to fix the hard drive not recognized problem.
The lacie setup assistant will automatically prepare your lacie hard drive for use on your system.
Hard drives usb 3 0 drive mobile drive rugged.
I regularly clean and defragment it and also have it checked out for viruses malware etc.
I just plugged in my external and i installed the needed software from the drive restarted and the drive wasn t found in lacie safe manager.
Lacie manual says that winxp does not require drivers.