Lacie Rugged Hard Drive Not Showing Up Mac

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Lacie rugged hard drive not showing up mac.

Lacie rugged not showing up as a drive in my computer this post has been flagged and will be reviewed by our staff. 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. Normally when you plug in an external hard drive to your mac s usb port you will see it appear on the desktop aka mount on the desktop. The lacie setup assistant will automatically prepare your lacie hard drive for use on your system.

Compatibility information for lacie hardware and software is listed below. Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode. 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. The hard drive icon does not appear on my.

Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed. Current products which lacie considers usb 3 0 usb 3 1 and or thunderbolt 2 or 3 capable are listed in the following table. You can also see it in the finder in the left column under. 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.

Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear.