[Hidden-tech] Lacie drive issue

Frank Aronson fsaronson at gmail.com
Thu May 16 11:24:10 EDT 2013


Reva is correct.  The Lacie drives have been very pretty to look at and
highly unreliable for a very long time.  That said, I'd plug it into the
Mac and check the properties on it (is it HSF+ or FAT32?).  You might also
plug it into the Windows machine and go to disk management (Right-click
Computer, select Manage and then click on Disk Management) and see if it
shows up there at all.  If it does, and if it shows up as healthy and
active, you might try to assign it a drive letter from there.  That's a
long shot, however.  You should be able to partition and format it from
there, however.

More often than not, I've seen the controller in the Lacie drive enclosures
go bad.  If that's the case, you could remove the drive from the enclosure
and place it into a new enclosure (they're available for about $30 to $50
or so - sometimes even less) and recover the drive that way.

Frank


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Reva Reck <reva at revareck.com> wrote:

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> I stopped using Lacie drives because they did stuff like this all the time.
> You probably need to format the drive for Windows. Can you see it using
> device manager? Lacie will have instructions for getting to drive in
> Windows
> from Device manager or from the command line. Formatting the drive,
> however,
> wipes out what's on it. Sorry I can't give you more details. It's been a
> while since I needed to do this.
>
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> Greetings!
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> I am having another odd issue, this time with a portable Lacie drive.
> I used it actively as a backup drive until one of the pins on the
> power supply broke. I finally replaced the power supply cord and the
> drive is now running, sort of. Problem is that neither of the pc's on
> which I tried it can recognize it anymore. I thought at first that it
> was just another thing going wrong with my laptop and then tried it on
> my other one. BOTH of these are laptops with which I have used the
> drive previously, for years. I get an error message saying that the
> device has malfunctioned and it doesn't even appear in a Windows
> Explorer list. However, it DOES work just fine plugged into an iMac
> G4. Anyone ever run into anything like this before and have any
> suggestions for getting it to work again?
>
> I DO seem to come up with what seem to me to be offbeat issues,
> dontcha think?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
>
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