Lacie Rugged Hard Drive Not Showing Up

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.

Lacie rugged hard drive not showing up.

Unfortunately in that case you will need to contact a data recovery company in case the data stored on the drive is really important. Listen for the internal disk to speed up and then click. If not open disk management and check the external hard drive state. Here you can see what the drive looks like to windows.

With the drive connected open disk management search for computer management disk management. 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. 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. Most of the hdd manufacturers offer their own data recovery. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear. 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.

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. For this click on file and then click new finder window. Open file explorer and check if the external hard drive appears.

Connect the lacie external hard drive to your pc via its usb cable. Follow the guidelines to make your lacie external hard drive detectable again.