[Hidden-tech] Lacie drive issue

[Neal Priestly]

One other thing you can try is to boot your Windows machine from a Linux
Live CD (I'd suggest Ubuntu if you're not real familiar with Linux)

It will happily mount your Windows formatted disks and allow data recovery
if it's there to recover and will cost you the download time and a
quarter's worth of writeable CD.

-Neal Priestly
 Free Range Technologist

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Frank Aronson <fsaronson at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> 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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