Yesterday the lacie suddenly stopped mounting on the desktop.
Lacie rugged not showing up mac.
We show you how to work out whether the reason the external drive is not mounting on your mac up is due to a problem with the drive itself the cable or the port and how to resolve the problem.
I have done all the usual checks and tested the harddrive on two other computers including one running ubuntu the plug and play works fine and i can see all my files.
Rugged copilot d2.
I can t access it at all.
The hard drive icon does not appear on my.
I have an external lacie drive as a backup where i keep important files i also have a second seagate backup for the same files.
The hard drive icon does not appear on my.
Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up.
Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed.
It does not appear in disk utility either.
When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear.
I use a mac desktop about a year old running yosemite 10 10 5.
Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up.
Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive.
Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode.
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.
And is not there.
The lacie drive on my laptop is usally designated g.
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.