The lacie setup assistant will automatically prepare your lacie hard drive for use on your system.
Lacie rugged external hard drive not showing up mac.
Hard drives usb 3 0 drive mobile drive rugged.
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.
I regularly clean and defragment it and also have it checked out for viruses malware etc.
So i am at a loss right now and do not know if i bought another lacie ext drive if that would work.
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.
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.
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.
Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive.
While the external hard drive connected to the windows computer or mac and the device did not show up.
Finally if your drive is online and formatted but doesn t show a drive letter next to its name right click the volume and choose change drive letter and paths to add a drive letter.
As an external harddrive it has worked just fine with no fuss.
Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed.
Lacie manual says that winxp does not require drivers.