Icon and use of LaCie Big Disk+ no longer

I purchased a LaCie 1 TB big disk+ external drive. Worked great out of the box. Large enough that I unloaded all of my other external drives onto it. Now, it (the icon) no longer appears on the desktop, allowing me access. The profiler states that it's recognized. I'm using my firewire 800 port which works fine with other drives, so that's not the problem. I also tried connecting it using the firewire 400 port. No luck. I've rebooted numerous times, with and without the drive plugged in. I've turned it on and off, disconnected the power temporarily, disconnected and reconnected, tried reloading the drivers, but get the message they're up to date and fine. Help!

Often LaCie drives will have power supply brick issues that are difficult to troubleshoot as the blue light comes on and the disk spins but nobody is home.
If the drive is under warranty LaCie will replace the brick no charge.
As an aside, you still need to backup the data that is on this drive otherwise you stand a chance of losing all of your data should the drive fail.
Luck-
-DP

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i bought the 1TB Lacie Rugged Hard Drive because I have run out of disk space on my Mac desktop. Once I plug it in, I can't seem to format it for the Mac and then use it to transfer my iPhoto library from my desktop to the Lacie Hard drive. Please help! Thanks.

I went into Disk Utility and into Erase and selected Mac OS Journaled and hit "Erase" (I hope that wasn't a big mistake.)
... it was only a mistake if the LaCie drive has multiple partitions on it. Sometimes they have a utiliy partition that I like to remove.
Then when asked whether I wanted to use Time Machine to back up everything on my Mac, I hit "yes". (I hope that wasn't a big mistake.)
... it was only a mistake if you didn't want TimeMachine to use it.
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Warning - itunes 7 and lacie Big Disk

At poresent I am attempting to re build my Lacie 500Gb hard drive because itunes 7 has crashed it, please be careful if you have wav files on a lacie big disk
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Oh and if anyone from the itunes team is reading this and I certainly hope there is, please be aware that if I lose my 500+ strong CD collection from my Big Disk, I will be asking them to send the person responsible for saying this product was safe for public consumption to come to Australia and sit in front of my mini and re rip every single CD one after another. Then they can rebuild the playiists that I so anally created, then they should be made to go and apologise to every single person in the world that their shoddy decision has effected
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I have recently "upgraded" to iTunes 7 myself. I use my old PB 17" as a music server (since work bought me a new 15" MacBook Pro), and . . . uh oh . . . I have my iTunes library on a LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme.
Perusing through the forums, it would seem that a lot of folks have trouble with the new iTunes and external drives, not just LaCie.
iTunes 7 corrupted the directory of the LaCie disk to the point at which I couldn't even mount the disk, and Disk Utility couldn't help me. It was really strange. The first time I ran iTunes 7, it did that whole gapless-playback scan (whatever the heck that is) and then could find none of the songs (it asked me on each song if I'd like to locate the original?). Then, I quit iTunes and couldn't open the LaCie drive icon on the desktop. So, I rebooted, and the LaCie drive wouldn't even mount.
The latest version of DiskWarrior (3.0.3), however, recognized the drive and rebuilt the directory and, I am happy to report, with the rebuilt directory ALL my music works and iTunes 7 seems to work like a charm.
It's a little frustrating that Apple released such a problematic product, BUT, I guess they can't try every possible hardware combination. iTunes and an external hard drive, though, would seem to be pretty common.
Talltexan, have you got the latest DiskWarrior?
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I am thinking of getting a LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple 2TB for use with Final Cut Express. This drive is actually 2 1-TB disks. Is there any problem using such a drive in capturing video (or anything else having to do with video editing/production)? Thanks in advance.

Do you use them for capturing and editing video?
Yes I do.

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I saw on an archived topic that some others had problems with this 500g LaCie Big Disk. I was curious if there was anyone out there who was having the same problems I am.
The Drive will just periodically shut off for no reason whatever. It's not in use, or anything, it's just sitting there being on, and I get the warning that I've disconnected the drive and don't ever do that, etc.
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Hi all,
First, want to quickly apologize for not doing a thorough read of all the posts regarding LaCie drives - the problem is that there are so many of them. People apparently are having all kinds of LaCie nightmares, and it would take me forever to read through everything. So here's my issue.
I have 3 LaCie Big Disk Extremes (d2), in three flavors. One 500 G, one 600 G, and 1 TB, each daisy-chained via FW 800 to the FW800 port on my G5 (Dual 2.5 GHz). All three have - until now - been acting just fine, but I just captured a few full HDV tapes to the 1 TB and I have had playback issues that just don't seem to go away. I'll play a few seconds, even at random points of the video, and it will freeze with the spinning beach ball of death.
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Now reading all of the LaCie posts is freaking me out a tad - is this some kind of warning sign that my 1 TB drive is heading down a dark path?
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Even the power supply is considered dangerousely unreliable.
Another thing is that drives can fail indeed at some point. If you can play the footage from some of your other drives then the 1TB might have some issues (power supply or other is difficult to say). Best would be backing up your media and if you can then run Disk Warrior http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
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Hello, I have an iPod touch and it don't has light or brightness. I can see the icons and use it but can get it work properly. I went to settings and the brightness is adjusted tu full level. Any idea?

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Cerate own icon and use in abap

Hi,
is it possible to create an own icon
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Resolution
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It is good practice to cite the source of quoted material; if possible, give the link to the aarticle. In this case, it would appear that you quoted a portion of this Apple KBase article -
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1901
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Data Rescue
Virtual Lab
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Hey Apple, looks like it's time for 10.4.8?
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Ok, I'm going to jump in here now.
I have a Lacie 320GB drive, that I borrowed from a friend, that has an NT filesystem. I'm running a bone stock 2.3Ghz dual G5 (5 months old) and 10.4.7.
If I plug the drive into either the front panel FW400 port -or- the rear FW800 port the machine will crash in about 5 seconds. The screen goes gray from the top to the bottom kind of like a shade being pulled down. Then I get the message in a small window that says to hold down the power button to reboot my computer.
Funny thing is, I also have a 1.67GHz G4 15" Powerbook, also running 10.4.7, and the drive works in both the FW800 and FW400 ports on that. I also plugged it into my (very old) 350Mhz G3 running 10.3.9 and it works fine there too.
Now onto my second, but related issue. I have a 250GB Lacie FW800/FW400/USB 2.0 drive also. Been using it for almost a year and always worked perfectly (Mac FS on it). Before I tried the other external drive (talked about above) I plugged this 250GB drive in and ....nothing.... It doesn't appear visible to the Mac in any way since updating to 10.4.7. Used it two weeks ago when running 10.4.6 and it worked fine. Now this drive is NOT visible on ANY machine that I have. I've tried all three ports on the drive (FW800, FW400, USB-2) with different cables and different computers. The drive is NOT visible on any of them. Disk utitility doesn't see it, the system profiler doesn't see anything on any of the ports. Funny thing is that as soon as you plug the drive into a port it fires up (light turns on) and you can hear it doing its thing internally just like it always has.
Now this could just be a coincidence that it went missing after installing 10.4.7 but I'm starting to think that 10.4.7 did something with the drive.
Remember, I have 2.3Ghz dual G5 which is ABSOLUTELY in stock condition as it came directly from Apple about 5 months ago. No extras, nothing special. Looking at your signature I see that we have pretty much the same machine.
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