Lacie Rugged Hard Drive Not Showing Up Mac

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Lacie rugged hard drive not showing up mac.

Lacie rugged not showing up as a drive in my computer this post has been flagged and will be reviewed by our staff. Compatibility information for lacie hardware and software is listed below. The lacie setup assistant will automatically prepare your lacie hard drive for use on your system. 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.

If the lacie setup assistant is not provided on the drive depending on the model your hard drive is formatted mac extended hfs windows fat32 or windows ntfs. Current products which lacie considers usb 3 0 usb 3 1 and or thunderbolt 2 or 3 capable are listed in the following table. Older drives that are not listed in this table may work but have not been tested. Hard drives usb 3 0 drive mobile drive rugged.

When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear. You can also see it in the finder in the left column under. The hard drive icon does not appear on my. Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up.

Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode. Normally when you plug in an external hard drive to your mac s usb port you will see it appear on the desktop aka mount on the desktop.