[Hidden-tech] Lacie drive issue

[Reva Reck]

If you need to replace the drive, I recommend drives from OWC: http://www.macsales.com <http://www.macsales.com/> 

They’re Mac oriented, but their drives work with Windows. They’re reasonably priced and VERY reliable.

 

From: bluemoon at crocker.com [mailto:bluemoon at crocker.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:46 PM
To: Frank Aronson
Cc: Reva Reck; hidden-discuss
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Lacie drive issue

 

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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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

 

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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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