Lacie Hard Drives, Lacie Hard Drives

I am currently piggy-backing 4 LaCie Hard Drives. Recently, three of the HD's seem to appear then disappear with a message saying that it was incorrectly disconnected and should be ejected. Then it shows back up. I am not sure if it is the cords or the Hard Drive's, or if there are patches to the Hard Drives? Has anyone had any problems lately?

Hello:
I have had that message (intermittently). I use G-tech drives. I have ignored the message as it seems to be an error.
Barry

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My Lacie Hard Drive is no longer being recognized by my MacBook, please help.

Hi all,
I have a Lacie external hard drive (LaCie Rugged XL eSATA 3Gb/s | USB 2.0) that I have been using on my MacBook (timemachine) (late 2008, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with OS X 10.9.1). One day it stopped being recognized, not showing up on the desk top, the disk utility program, etc.
I Googled many articles, blogs and support communities but have yet to find any solution. I also went to the Lacie support site and followed the trouble shooting instructions - changed my power source, usb cable, and tried the drive out on 3 different computers. The results: The drive works fine on the other computers (OS X and Windows) using the same power and usb cords. So Lacie recommened I contact Apple but my MacBook is not under warranty so I have decided to try my luck with the Apple Support Community. If any one has had this problem or knows the solution, please let me know. I would like to continue to use my MacBook with this Lacie hard drive.
Thanks

Hi Dibenkorn,
Yes, both USB ports are not recognizing this lacie external hard drive. I also tried the SMC reset but that did not change anything. I have another external hard drive (smaller one) and it works on this computer fine and like I said before the Lacie works fine on my other (older) MacBook. I just can not figure out what went wrong or what happened...

Now that I saved everything to my LaCie external hard drive, do I need to erase my IMAC hard drive? My computer is still slow. :(

My computer is still slow after uninstalling Macbook pro and buying a LaCie external hard drive and saving everything to it. I repaired disk permissions. Am I supposed to erase original hard drive?
Thanks!

Not yet, get a second hard drive, or a second medium to backup your data. You never want there to be less than two copies of your data at anytime. If for some reason one fails, you'll always want a backup. Clone with Superduper or Carbon Copy Cloner. Note, if you have an early 2008 Mac, it is not PPC, but rather Intel. PPC indicates the chip is G3, G4, or G5. You can double check this by going to Apple menu and selecting About This Mac. Once you verified your Mac, I can ask a moderator to move this thread, so you don't have to crosspost.

My Lacie external hard drive will not back up on Time Machine. Says there's not enough space. This has happened with every single external I've purchased. Thought TM was supposed to delete old backups??

My Lacie External backed up on Time Machine after the first back up but now says there's not enough room. I thought TM deleted old back ups to save new versions. What am I doing wrong. This happens to me constantly. Every single external hard drive I've purchased for the MacBook Pro (5 of them) has not worked either initially or at the second back up. It either isn't formatted properly so I have to go to Genius bar to help me set up for the first back up, or after the first back up, it says there's not enough space and I have to go back to Genius Bar. Is there a way I can fix this on my own?

I just purchased 2 external hardrives. a LaCie Minimus and a G Drive. Each 1 TB. The guy at Apple told me that would provide 2 good TM backups for me. My internal HD has 750 GB capacity, of which I'm using 700 GB. Perhaps the ratio is not great enough. I do wish they would have told me this before I purchased the two Bummmmer! I even had them format and get the first back-ups going because of issues I've had in the past. I also just bought a 750 GB for photos.
So, I won't be able to buy another bigger external since I've just purchased 3. Ugh. Well, I'll just exclude some files and divide things up. Eventually, I just want my 20,000 iphotos on one of the 1TB externals, and a TM back-up on another so that iphoto will function once more. It really hates how many photos I have and is brutally punishing me for it.I seriously need to do some housecleaning!
Thanks for the advice. Just moved from US to Australia last week and was hoping to upload a few photos and the domino effect has lead me to this. Just went to Genius Bar in Perth today and they told me how to reformat drive to transfer iphoto library over, but I got stuck at trying to back-up my TM.

Lacie 250GB External Hard Drive NOT RECOGNIZED

HELP! My Lacie External HD that I've had for several years and holds a lot of my files is no longer being recognized on my MacBOok Pro. It used to recognize it instantly when I plugged the USB cable to the USB Port - now, nothing. The Lacie light is on, but my laptop isn't reading it at all. What's going on??? I did a disk utility - it's not showing up there at all either. Is it due to a software update? Don't get me started on losing out on using my entire Dreamweaver/Flash Studio MX 2004...
ALSO, I notice my iPhone is not being recognized in iPhoto anymore either. It is recognized in iTunes. And yes i've heard many folks say email photos should be removed, which i have done so and still nothing!
HELP PLEASE!!!

Are other USB devices working normally, Eric?
If so, the most likely cause is that either the bridge or the drive itself in your external enclosure has failed (assuming you have tried a different cable)
No, it is most unlikely to be due to a software update. With an old external drive like yours the most likely explanation is that it has simply failed. If it is the bridge, rather than the hard drive itself, that has died you may be able to remove the HD from the LaCie enclosure, put it in a different enclosure, and recover your stuff. In some cases, too, a drive light will illuminate when the drive is connected to the computer, even if the power supply to the drive itself is faulty. You might want to contact LaCie to see if they have any advice to offer about such situations.
Have you tried the drive on another Mac or another drive on this Mac? THis would immediately narrow down the location of the problem, of course.
Cheers
Rod
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How can i view and upload photos from an older version of iPhoto which are on an external hard drive to my new iMac? i currently have copied the application version 9.4.2. on my lacie backup and want to view and upload this to my new iPhoto version 9.5.1

our old iMac died suddenly, but i had backed up the iPhoto application to a lacie external hard drive. however, when i try to open it in my new iMac which is installed with version 9.5.1 and is upgraded to maverick, it comes up with “cannot be opened, to open you must upgrade to latest version” and then makes you press the quit button.
the iPhoto version on the external hard drive is iPhoto 9.4.2 which i upgraded on 29/11/12 onto our old iMac (early 2007 version)
my new iMac is running on version OSX 10.9.1
i have looked at buying iphoto library manager and have emailed them about whether this would work, but any advice would be gratefully received as i cannot be the only person that has had this problem but i cannot find any answers that work.
thanks
Julie

YOu can rebuild with Library Manager and this does not require a purchase:
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

My LaCie Firewire 800 hard drive, connected to my Macbook Pro via Thunderbolt Cinema Display port, disconnects after sleep

I have a LaCie RAID Quadra hard drive (two disks in a case set to a redundant array) which for all intents and purporses appears as a normal hard drive to my mac.
When connected directly via FW800 to my Macbook Pro (2011, with thunderbolt port), it works perfectly.
For the sake of convenience, and since I am using it only at home as my Time Machine drive, I connected it to the FW800 port on my Thunderbolt Cinema Display. The display works perfectly in every way up until now.
When connected, the drive works great. However, when I put the machine to sleep, upon awakening it, I receive the "Disk improperly ejected" error immediately upon the screen coming up.
The drive is set to Auto mode which has always worked fine in the past; putting the drive to sleep when the computer is asleep, etc.
So, I only receive the disk ejected error when it's plugged into the Cinema Display; not when directly plugged into the MBP.
I have the 1.1 firmware update applied to the monitor.
Any ideas? I appreciate it.

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My desktop has two FireWire ports. In the first one I had my webcam plugged in. In the second one, the External Hard Drive. I unplugged the camera and used the first port for my External HDrive and now it works! So it seems the problem is a hardware problem with the port.
I'd check to see if the problem returns when you plug the camera back into the second port, or if the drive works in the original port when the camera is not connected.
Edit: Maybe you unplugged the problem, when you unplugged the camera?
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Hello, I have two questions on time capsule I can only have it on my external hd files and free up my internal memory to my mac I can use an external hard drive, in my case a lacie rugged as shared memory for my two computers

Hello, I have two questions on time capsule I can only have it on my external hd files and free up my internal memory to my mac I can use an external hard drive, in my case a lacie rugged as shared memory for my two computers

I have a mackbook pro and an iMac if I buy a time capsule 2tb airport, I can use it with time machine and what would be the best way to use it.
There is no particular setup required for TM.. both computers will create their own backup sparsebundle which is like a virtual disk.. Pondini explains the whole thing if you read the reference I gave you.
and how to use time capsule airport whit other external hd to use my old lacie airport with the new time capsule
Up to you.. you can plug the external drive into the TC and enjoy really slow file transfers or you can plug it into your computer and use it as external drive.. which is faster than the TC.. and TM can include it in the backup.
Again everything is explained in the reference.. you are not reading it.

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

I updated FCPX to 10.9 after I had updated my os to 10.9.1. And the result is that FCPx can no longer read LaCie external hard drive where all the projects and events are stored. The program simply crashes every time I try to read anything from the LaCie.

Could anyone tell me what to do to solve the problem. I updated FCPX to 10.9 and the program keeps on crash every time I try to read files stored in my LaCie hard drive. And the program also keeps on crash every time I try to import files from my SDXC cards.

I have solved the problem. Once the update is done, you need to launch FCPX, and go to File, then "update all events and projects". It will solve the problem and everything works fine.

Folder disappeared on External Lacie Hard Drive - Mountain Lion

Hi
I had a folder named "Digital Pictures" on my external hard drive where i have stored with "year-month-day folder name" as a folder name. Before I went on a trip last friday, I had copied all the files from my EOS memory card and formatted them on my camera.
Now after the trip, I am trying to copy files, and I see the total folder "Digital Pictures" itself is disappeared. It has thousands of very precious images of my 2 kids and over 7 years of photographs.
I can't locate them. Restarted my mac (Mountain Lion), connected my hard drive on a different mac pro laptop, and I don't see it. I have never deleted it even by mistake which am sure.
Last thursday I had copied lots of files to this folder. That's the latest thing happened in that folder. When I search through spot light for the files modified recently on JPEG kind, I don't see anything on last week.
It's very frustrating, and MAC has been recently failing on me a lot.
If any of you have experienced this type of situation, please assist. Thanks a lot.
Hariharan

A. Disk Warrior: When you hold OPTION on the "Rebuild" directory it does a full deep scan of actual files and goes by what it can find on the hard drive. Has been known to take days and succeed in some instances.
WHERE ARE REDUNDANT SETS BACKUP?
I see and have to wonder, and with 2TB disk drives for $120 (WD RED NAS) there is no reason not to: and data should be on clone, Time Machine, and one other and always have a set beside your work main data, that is off line at all time.
Clone every drive
Use more than one Time Machine drive (just swap one out from time to time so you have a "last month" or something).
DW may not help. It may also.
Data Rescue 3 might. It has a demo.
Using the drive is out of the question for now.
And a dozen years ago I came to see way more, too many, LaCie related issues to ever recommend let alone use theirs (and I was a LaCie Quantum Computer buyer back in early 90's)
So go shopping. Some repacement and spare recovery drives and software and cases - one place to look,
http://www.macsales.com/firewire or Amazon - I buy a lot of WD drives, but never touched a "MyBook" - drives and cases are different matter.
It has thousands of very precious images of my 2 kids and over 7 years of photographs.
I can't locate them. Restarted my mac (Mountain Lion), connected my hard drive on a different mac pro laptop, and I don't see it. I have never deleted it even by mistake which am sure.
Last thursday I had copied lots of files to this folder."

My Lacie hard drive back up is not showing up and light is flickering

My back up hard drive is not showing up when i plug in the USB to my Macbook Air so won't back up. The light on the hard drive is flickering. CAn you please help?

A: does it show up in disk utility?
B: try a different USB port.
C: If no go, try a different Mac.
D: If still not recognized then its about 90% likely the SATA bridge card inside the USB enclosure is bad....NOT the Hard Drive itself, but the SATA bridge card attached to same.
Is your Lacie a conventional HD or a SSD? (LaCie does NOT make hard drives, internal conventional HD are Seagate inside a LaCie)
If its a conventional HD
A replacement HD enclosure will solve same, ($15 ebay). The Sata card removes from the HD very easily, like LEGOs attached together come apart.
Verify A thru D first before doing anything.
likely bad part pictured below, the SATA card, ... as seen INSIDE a USB external HD

Lacie Hard Drive no longer recognized

I had the power go out in my apartment for a couple of seconds today and now one of my Lacie FW external hard drives won't be recognized or mounted by my Mac. In System Profiler, it recognizes it as "Unknown Device", but the Disk Utility won't "see" it at all. I also have Data Rescue II, but it won't recognize the drive either. I have 2 other Lacie externals that didn't seem to be affected by the outage.
Troubleshooting I've already tried:
- rebooting
- shutting down, uplugging all drives, and unplugging Mac for 15 min
- resetting PRAM
Are there any other ideas out there? I've read good things about Disk Warrior, but I don't want to buy it if I'm not sure it will even recognize the drive. Thoughts?

That was the kind of malfunction exhibited in some LaCie drives: They powered up, spun, but were unable to mount. Sometimes, the blue ligt on the front was barely dimmed or slighty pulsated along with the spinning. And usually, the cause of the problem was a bad AC adapter.
Just Google for that info, or have a look at this page.
If one of the other power supplies matches, you loose nothing but a copule of minutes by trying. If it doesn't work, the internal bridge board could be fried.
It could also be a corrupt firmware issue, but if System Profiler is unable to identify it, the LaCie firmware updater will probably fail as well.
MacMini G4 1.25GHz 1GB Mac OS X (10.4.9)

LaCie 120Gb external hard drive no longer recognized

I've had a LaCie 120Gb external hard drive working independently off a firewire cable for a couple of months now. This morning it stopped being picked up as an external drive. It connects because you can feel it whirring, and stops when the computer is turned off (so the cables are working), but it no longer shows up in the finder or disk utility. I tried resetting the PRAM to no effect. Any ideas anyone???
Dave Nicholls, Auckland.

it spins because it has power. maybe your firewire port is damaged? does the drive have a usb port that you can try? if not, you can remove the hard drive from it's enclosure and install it in a tower mac or pc if you have one and see if it shows up then.

LaCie Hard Drive No Longer Mounts on iBook G4

Hello,
My LaCie 600 GB Hard drive will no longer mount onto my iBook G4. I had this problem about 6 months ago. It was solved by reformatting my whole computer through the installation disks that came with my computer. After I reformatted it, the hard drive was immediately recognized. I don't want to go that route again because I have a lot of programs on there that would take forever to reinstall. I have all of my important info backed up, just not the programs itself.
I've tried running:
Macaroni
Utility Disk
Data Rescue II
And neither of these came up with any "diagnosis" on why my hard drive won't mount. I check my cables through plugging my hard drive in other computers, and it works fine. I think it has to do with my hardware on my iBook G4.
When I plug it into my usb port, the blue light on my hard drive turns on, and I can hear the inside spinning. It just doesn't pop up onto my desktop. It doesn't show up in disk utility either.
Any ideas on what I can do?
-Kristen

I would contact the folks at LaCie for their feedback.

IMac no Longer Recognizes External Hard Lacie Hard Drive via Firewire 800

It worked for 1 year. Time machine backed up fine. Over the past month it has gone in and out of recognizing the external Lacie d2 quadra via the Firewire800 port. I've tried turning off botht the iMac and the hard drive. unplugging both for 30 minutes. i can't get the external hard drive to connect in teh finder window anymore. should i buy a new firewire cable? is that the simple answer. Can these go bad?

You should try a new or different FireWire cable.
If the drive also has a USB 2.0, try connecting it with a USB cable. Does it work that way?
Also, try running Disk Utility (assuming the drive is seen the sidebar and able to be selected) and running +Repair Disk+ on the +First Aid+ tab. This procedure can take a long time on the drive that is used for the Time Machine archive.

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