Lacie Rugged Not Showing Up Mac

We show you how to work out whether the reason the external drive is not mounting on your mac up is due to a problem with the drive itself the cable or the port and how to resolve the problem.

Lacie rugged not showing up mac.

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. The lacie setup assistant will automatically prepare your lacie hard drive for use on your system. The hard drive icon does not appear on my.

Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode. The lacie drive on my laptop is usally designated g. I use a mac desktop about a year old running yosemite 10 10 5. Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive.

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. Rugged copilot d2. Yesterday the lacie suddenly stopped mounting on the desktop. I have an external lacie drive as a backup where i keep important files i also have a second seagate backup for the same files.

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. Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed. I can t access it at all. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear.

Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up. 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. The hard drive icon does not appear on my. When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear.