Lacie Rugged External Hard Drive Not Showing Up Mac

Lacie external hard drive not recognized on mac but recognized on pc i just got both a macbook pro and a lacie 1tb rugged safe external hard drive just a few days ago.

Lacie rugged external hard drive not showing up mac.

Finally if your drive is online and formatted but doesn t show a drive letter next to its name right click the volume and choose change drive letter and paths to add a drive letter. Don t worry the next guide we will show you the best solution to fix the hard drive not recognized problem. 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. While the external hard drive connected to the windows computer or mac and the device did not show up.

If we were to pick one disk drill seems to be the most well rounded offering plenty of customizations and power in an easy to use interface. To sum up there are lots of potential solutions for a mac not reading an external hard drive. I regularly clean and defragment it and also have it checked out for viruses malware etc. How to fix external hard drive not recognized.

Hard drives usb 3 0 drive mobile drive rugged. 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. As an external harddrive it has worked just fine with no fuss.

I just plugged in my external and i installed the needed software from the drive restarted and the drive wasn t found in lacie safe manager. Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed.