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

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