[Hidden-tech] Lacie drive issue

[bluemoon at crocker.com]

Thanks all. I probably should have mentioned that I don't care about 
the data, it's old anyway. I don't really have any specific attachment 
(pun unintended) to the drive either, I was just hoping to save $ by 
not having to purchase a replacement drive and make the $20 I just 
spent on a replacement power cord not for naught. I'll try the 
reformatting and if that doesn't work I'll probably just resell the 
power cord back on e-bay and get another drive (I think I can get 
something good enough for the purpose for under $30) and not waste 
time messing around with it.

Gary

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> --- Original message ---
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Lacie drive issue
> From: Frank Aronson <fsaronson at gmail.com>
> To: Reva Reck <reva at revareck.com>
> Cc: Gary Powsner <bluemoon at crocker.com>, hidden-discuss 
> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> Date: Thursday, 16/05/2013 11:24 AM
>
>
> 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!
>>
>> 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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