Installed 10.4.6 now ipod and lacie external hard drive no longer register

Hi
thankyou in advance, I updated to 10.4.6 but now the ipod and lacie external hard drive (usb drive) are not recognized by the computer. have tried disk utility, restarting etc but no difference. The lacie is recognized by another computer so it is not faulty. Any suggestions please?

after reading this and resetting the PMU, my drive works. I'd say try it, the worst that could happen is you have to fix your time and date.
read this-
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2072301&#2072301
then followed this-
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449

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Lacie external hard drive no longer readable by computer

I am using a lacie tb hard drive, and ran data rescue 3 recovery software on it. Now, when I plug it in, the hard drive is not readable by the computer at all.
Advice?
thanks

Hi BoyHowdyDoo,
This is an external drive that traceyx is talking about, so no need to boot from the OS DVD to run DiskUtility.
I'm a bit suspicious that the drive is actually physically failing, I'm afraid in this case, given the mention of bad blocks etc.
Tracey, I'm not sure from your comments whether you have actually already managed to get the things you want from the drive off it or not?
Running DiskUtility over it shouldn't hurt the drive, and may repair it sufficiently to get it "seen" again. I very much doubt if Drive Rescue has really done any serious damage to the drive if it was healthy beforehand, but the mention you made of bad blocks being reported is a worry, and the WD external drives unfortunately don't have a very good reputation for reliability.
If you were trying to recover the deleted files to a disk that was itself already damaged then unpredictable consequences could have occurred.
In this situation myself, assuming this is a Mac HFS(+) formatted external drive, If Disk Utility didn't fix it I would probably use Alsoft's "DiskWarrior" to try to repair it. It is capable of dealing with problems that are beyond the ability of DiskUtility . If that failed I would use DataRescue to try to recover the contents to another external.
Rod

LaCie external hard drive no longer readable after being connected to a PC

Hi all,
First post here and I really worried.
I have a Lacie external drive which I normally connect to my Mac - no problems.
Tried to connect it to my Windows 7 pc to transfer some files and it wasn't recognised. It installs the drivers and says its ready to use, but doesn't appear as a drive. So I read about it and the advice was to go to Computer Management - Disk Managment and mark drive 1 / partition as active and then assign a drive letter. So I did that and then Windows tells me that I must format the drive to use it.
Obviously I don't want to as I can't loose my data - my wedding pictures are on the drive!
So I've plugged the Lacie back into my mac, and the drive is unusable and says I need to format too. Even the repair function doesn't work.
Now I've read the another post and downloaded Test Disk (I'm working off my mac though as I know the drive worked and all my files where added from the Mac).
Its currently Anaylsing the cylinder but its taking a long time. 24hours and still on 30% (1TB drive, firewire)
I've read the help guide but once this stage completes, having read the next few steps, I'm lost.
Any ideas on what might have happened and what I need to do next?
I'll report back once its finished its 'deeper search' and analysing.
Or do I abort the above process and do something else?
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Thanks in advance,
Nick

I've read the help guide but once this stage completes, having read the next few steps, I'm lost.
And those few steps were? Care to share?
Lacie has great tech support. Call them - http://www.lacie.com/support/faq/faq.htm?faqid=10338

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http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/mac_accessories

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I've had my Lacie External hard drive for about 4 months and i have a recurring problem, it wont always show up in finder or on the desktop.
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I've been using a LaCie external hard drive for my Time Machine backups and it's been working fine until a couple of weeks ago. Mavericks no longer recognizes the drive. I tested the drive out on a non-Mavericks Macbook and it booted up fine. I see there are issues with this, but wondering if anyone has a work around or if you've found there is a fix I can do? Really frustrating to not be able to access my archives or be able to back up my work!

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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