Recently purchased a Lacie Rugged Harddrive yet im struggling to move data from my macpro to the harddrive anybody know where im going wrong?

After purchasing a lacie drive Im struggling to move data and drop it onto my rugged external harddrive........................infact it wont do it atall?? is there a way of formatting the drive on my mac so it works or is the external hardrive not so rugged afterall??

Heollo there, first of all plug the disk to a free working port on your Mac (I suppose it's USB2). Then, check if it mounts on the desktop. If not, launch Disk Utility: on the left, you should see the external drive along the startup disk.
Careful! There is a device tree for each disk! Top: device. Lower: formatted volume.
You select the top disk icon and select "Partition". Reformat the disk as GUID partition scheme. As a disk format, go for "Mac OS Extented (Journaled)". Let the Mac erase the drive and - at last - it should mount on the desktop.
If the Mac does not let you erase the disk, or should you not be able to even see the device, launch System Information and check that the disk is being seen by Mac OS X (under USB or FireWire, depending on how you plugged the disk).
Let us know how it goes.

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