Lacie Rugged External Hard Drive Not Showing Up

Make lacie external hard drive shows up detectable on pc.

Lacie rugged external hard drive not showing up.

If the external hard drive shows as raw or no media follow part 2 with the provided solution for help. 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. The hard drive icon does not appear on my. I regularly clean and defragment it and also have it checked out for viruses malware etc.

Restart pc change usb port and usb cable reconnect the lacie external hard drive. Lacie rugged not showing up as a drive in my computer. Hard drives mobile drive rugged. If the device doesn t show up at all move on and make it detectable.

Lacie manual says that winxp does not require drivers. In the event that the drive is still not recognized take. So i am at a loss right now and do not know if i bought another lacie ext drive if that would work. Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode.

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. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear. I have lacie rugged fw usb external hard drive here and have plugged it in using the usb cables for power and actual connection to my.

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