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Sounds like a bad hard drive or a BIOS problem. If you have access to a working PC, try connecting the hard drive (providing the connections match) and see if it's recognized. Try borrowing another hard drive to see if your machine recognizes that one. Your bios is a good place to begin.

If you recently bought it from a store or online it might just be a bad hard drive which happens. If your bios wont recognize it then it might just be an error with the bios firmware which can be updated from the manufaturers site.

the hard drive will not be recognized because the BIOS has been affected by the battery removal

Can it work in another port or another computer?Try these option if all fails maybe the device is bad.

Use a partition manager to see if the drive is recognized. If it is not recognized, you may not have the jumper setting correct. If it is a master drive, set the jumper for master drive. same for slave or cable select

hi..the reason for your problem is your extenal
hard drive has been affected by viruses.The best
solution to this problem is scanning your hard drive.
once you scan it u will be free of viruses and your
laptop will be able to recognise your hard drive.
try it out..
thank u..
rate me..

hi I am using Hitachi external hard disk with aluminum case. When I connect my hard disk with my PC it is not recognizing my hard disk. I want retrive my data from the hard disk please let me know the solutions.

Thanks,
K.Venki

First I had to reseat one of the drives which had worked loose and become unseated during shipping. Then I had to format the hard drive and finally I had a 1TB external hard drive I could use. The light is still red.

Try to connect to another computer, and see if it recognizes the drive. If Not, you can dismantle LaCie and take the disk out.

Connecto your disk to another external box (USB or Firewire) so you can have access to you data.