Disappearing Hard Drive, new Mac Pro

I have a brand new Mac Pro with 5 hard drives installed. My "MacHD" home drive is a 1TB that came with the computer and I installed 4 more Samsung 2TB drives into the available bays plus rigged up a bay in one of the CD trays areas. These drives are named "Drive 1/2/3/4"
Yesterday I hooked up a Lacie Minimus 2TB external to my computer for the first time and went through the setup and formatting process to make it one large drive on the mac. Then I named the drive "Portable 2TB" and copied over one large folder (1.15 TB) from "Drive 1" on my computer to the "Portable 2TB" Lacie drive that I just hooked up. It took 4 hours and then I shut down my computer for the night and everything seemed OK.
This morning when I turn on my computer, my Samsung "Drive 4" internal drive somehow thinks that it's the Lacie "Portable 2TB" drive. ALL THE INFO THAT WAS ON "DRIVE 4" is gone and it's just that 1 large folder that I copied over to the external drive yesterday. What was yesterday called "Drive 4" on my desktop is now named "Portable 2TB" and there is even a Lacie logo! I go into disk utility and it still says it's a Samsung drive.
My question is: what is going on here? Is it possible that the Lacie setup process I went through yesterday formatted the wrong drive on my computer? Did it reformat "Drive 4" instead the Lacie external like it was supposed to?
Another clue: when I attached the external again this morning it made me go through the formatting process again, as if I had never formatted it yesterday and never copied that huge folder over to it...

In that case, your question should be addressed to LaCie tech support. I have no idea what their software does. Apparently what it does isn't very desirable.

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HD Tune: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2 Benchmark
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I have recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.66 15" (SD - Mid 2009) that has the standard 320 GB SATA hard drive.
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I will be selling my older (2.53GHz) Mac Pro but would like to keep my larger hard drive.
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Sounds like itneeds some good basic maintenance and troubleshooting. Stop using this drive. Start trashing temp files, and off loading good files.
Everytime you freeze and do a hard restart, the chance that the journal, directory, file system and data are compromised increases, in spite of the "OKAY" from Disk Utility's repair routines it is not reliable. And leads to false sense of security. Disk Utility only checks the basic directory, not the files themselves.
It may be something like a damaged Finder plist/preference, or worse, but either you look for an easy fix, or just start cleaning up and moving files and system to a good drive and system.
You may have bad blocks on your drive causing all this. Or not. TechTool can detect bad sectors, but not map them out. (Deluxe is part of AppleCare; or Pro, commercial version).
Start using SuperDuper if you don't already, and Disk Warrior, premiere for disk repairs.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
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I would begin by installing OS X on another drive, or restoring from TimeMachine. Create/name an "emergency" boot drive partition. Doesn't need to be that large. Keep it handy just for doing repairs and maintenance. Keep another as a clone of your working system and backup - in addition to TimeMachine.
You may want to start by erasing the drive (not just the OS volume) with a 7-way write (not just zero all, it does NOT do a reliable safe job mapping out bad blocks) and restore from TimeMachine. Or work with a new drive.

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After I install the Hard Drive will I see a New Hard Drive Icon on my Desktop?
How do I tell the computer that the new Hard drive will be used only on the mac side and not the Windows side?
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Sorry if this has been asked. I purchased a used MAC Pro from a friend that needed money. The hard drive is too small to accommodate all the software on my other MAC so Migration Assistant will not work. I know how to put secondary drives in and format them. How do I replace the primary drive with a larger one? I don't know how to install a clean hard drive on a MAC and start from scratch. I am also planning on adding more RAM but I do know how to do that. Thanks

Pretty simple on the Mac Pro. Just pull the tray with the primary drive out (there are no cables to worry about) and then also pull out one of the secondary trays. Put a new drive in one of the secondary trays, then slide it into the primary slot, and put the former primary drive into the vacant secondary slot.
Then you just install a fresh copy of OS X from the install DVD. Just put it in the drive and hold down "C" at boot. Then follow the instructions on screen, and Migration Assistant will pick up the second drive and do it's thing.
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