Lacie Rugged Not Visible

How to fix external hard drive not recognized on windows.

Lacie rugged not visible.

In windows this problem can be because of partition issues dead usb ports driver windows conflicts file systems dead or outdated drivers. 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. Perhaps other win users have encountered this. I have been worried all day why my lacie hard drive wasn t working.

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 drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear. My drive was running but the light was not flashing and showing up.

The answer to my problem was just another power cord to connect from my drive to my mac. The drive has been formatted ntfs and shows up in my computer as f. Lacie rugged thunderbolt connects but does not show in explorer on pc reply contact. 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.

When connected by usb. Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive. I ve got a 1tb lacie rugged drive with usb 3 and thunderbolt. Googled a lot of different things and just wanted to share what happened for just in case it helps someone else.

Lacie external hard drive not recognized on mac but recognized on pc i just got both a macbook pro and a lacie 1tb rugged safe external hard drive just a few days ago.