Lacie Rugged Drive Not Showing Up

If you have followed all of these steps and the drive is still not recognized shut down your computer wait 3 to 5 minutes restart your computer and try again.

Lacie rugged drive not showing up.

Reboot the computer and reconnect the external hard drive again. How to choose the file system format. Discussion starter 1 dec 17 2015. I ve got a 1tb lacie rugged drive with usb 3 and thunderbolt.

Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive. 1 6 of 6 posts. The lacie drive on my laptop is usally designated g. Lacie rugged drive not showing up in osx.

And is not there. I have lacie rugged fw usb external hard drive here and have plugged it in using the usb cables for. A fat32 partition can reach up to 32gb when formatted on a windows pc. However fat32 is a legacy file system designed for low capacity hard drives and it is not recommended for modern hard drives or operating systems.

The storage device is connected to windows pcs. Open device manager expand disk drivers right click on the external hard drive and select update driver click search automatically for updated driver software. When connected by usb. I have done all the usual checks and tested the harddrive on two other computers including one running ubuntu the plug and play works fine and i can see all my files.

Because my zbook 17 gen3 only has thunderbolt 3 ports i had to get a kanex adapter to connect it to the laptop from the lacie s legacy thunderbolt. Perhaps other win users have encountered this. There you should be able to see the external hard drive showing up in disk management again. Jump to latest follow status not open for further replies.

The drive has been formatted ntfs and shows up in my computer as f. Lacie rugged not showing up as a drive in my computer by panbasket jan 2 2011 12 32pm pst.