It does not appear in disk utility either.
Lacie rugged not showing up mac.
When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear.
Rugged copilot d2.
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.
I use a mac desktop about a year old running yosemite 10 10 5.
The hard drive icon does not appear on my.
Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode.
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.
Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed.
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.
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.
When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear.
The lacie setup assistant will automatically prepare your lacie hard drive for use on your system.
Yesterday the lacie suddenly stopped mounting on the desktop.
Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up.
The hard drive icon does not appear on my.
And is not there.
Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode.
In the event that the drive is still not recognized take the drive to.
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.
I can t access it at all.