Lacie Rugged Hard Drive Not Showing Up

Now look for the drive below the remote disk.

Lacie rugged hard drive not showing up.

Listen for the internal disk to speed up and then click. Check lacie external hard drive state. Open file explorer and check if the external hard drive appears. Most of the hdd manufacturers offer their own data recovery.

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

Step 1 first of all look for the external hard drive in the finder window. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear. If not open disk management and check the external hard drive state. Follow the guidelines to make your lacie external hard drive detectable again.

Here you can see what the drive looks like to windows. With the drive connected open disk management search for computer management disk management. Power up the drive and put your ear next to it. Try disconnecting the firewire usb cable from the drive and take the drive to a quiet place.

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. Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up.