Lacie Rugged External Hard Drive Not Showing Up Mac

Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed.

Lacie rugged external hard drive not showing up mac.

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. Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive. Don t worry the next guide we will show you the best solution to fix the hard drive not recognized problem. To sum up there are lots of potential solutions for a mac not reading an external hard drive.

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. So i am at a loss right now and do not know if i bought another lacie ext drive if that would work. Lacie external hard drive not recognized on mac but recognized on pc i just got both a macbook pro and a lacie 1tb rugged safe external hard drive just a few days ago. Lacie manual says that winxp does not require drivers.

Hard drives usb 3 0 drive mobile drive rugged. The lacie setup assistant will automatically prepare your lacie hard drive for use on your system. While the external hard drive connected to the windows computer or mac and the device did not show up. As an external harddrive it has worked just fine with no fuss.

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. If we were to pick one disk drill seems to be the most well rounded offering plenty of customizations and power in an easy to use interface.