Lacie Rugged External Hard Drive Not Showing Up Mac

How to fix external hard drive not recognized.

Lacie rugged external hard drive not showing up mac.

Lacie manual says that winxp does not require drivers. 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. 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. Hard drives usb 3 0 drive mobile drive rugged.

While the external hard drive connected to the windows computer or mac and the device did not show up. To sum up there are lots of potential solutions for a mac not reading an external hard drive. I regularly clean and defragment it and also have it checked out for viruses malware etc. 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.

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. Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed. 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. Don t worry the next guide we will show you the best solution to fix the hard drive not recognized problem.

Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive. So i am at a loss right now and do not know if i bought another lacie ext drive if that would work.