Lacie Rugged Hard Drive Not Showing Up

Open file explorer and check if the external hard drive appears.

Lacie rugged hard drive not showing up.

Power up the drive and put your ear next to it. Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive. With the drive connected open disk management search for computer management disk management. For this click on file and then click new finder window.

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. Follow the guidelines to make your lacie external hard drive detectable again. 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. Check lacie external hard drive state.

Connect the lacie external hard drive to your pc via its usb cable. 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. Now look for the drive below the remote disk.

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. Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up. Step 1 first of all look for the external hard drive in the finder window.

Most of the hdd manufacturers offer their own data recovery. If not open disk management and check the external hard drive state.