LaCie Popular Questions, Answers, Tips & Manuals

1. Disconnect all cables from the device.
2. Press and hold the "reset" button (located on the rear panel) for about 10 seconds.
3. Wait for the device to restart and initialize. This may take several minutes.
4. Reconnect the cables to the device and try accessing it again.

Note: It's recommended to backup all data stored on the device before performing a factory reset, as all data will be lost during the reset process.

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Check the data recovery programme used for an idea or start again now you have your data back by re initialising and formatting the drive as a new one.

Depending on your OS, use your disc utility and see if it has been initialised or not. If not initialise it and then you can format and use it as normal.

U should test for power at the connector that goes into the lacie with a voltmeter to make sure power supply and its wire are OK. If no voltmeter then use a automobile brake or turn signal bulb to see if it has power.

Pushing in the paperclip should unlock it, but if still jammed, may have to wreck drive by pulling off front of drive drawer thing. Maybe try putty knife to push cd down some of that's holding it from opening.

Just an idea. When you set pass words or any important information write all information in a note book and keep it in a drawer someplace where you will not lose it. When things change write the new ones down and cross out the old ones. I save a lot of head aches that way.

Replace perhaps, but repair is most difficult. The electronics are miniature and it takes special tools to do repairs.

Two ways this can go. If you are talking about the entire hard drive pulling it out and plugging the whole drive into another pc. Then you're fine If you are talking about disassembling the hard drive and moving the disks inside. This is not something you can do. This is what you will need. 1) a certified clean room surgical grade 2) tape 3) A matching drive/ hd board down to revision number 4) presision screw tools. 5) patience. Or you will need to contact a professional data recover company.

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What system (full description plz) you're running on? Are you ready to pay for assistance or prefer to call locals?

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the power circuit is most likely blown. You can buy an external hard drive case and put the hard drive in it. Be sure to buy correct size hard drive enclosure. The other way is to remove hard drive from external case and put into computer with a spare sata connection.

check if it is initialized in the disk manager

Your laptop got a virus you need a strong antivirus software to remove it

It sounds like you have power but the communication method is not working. I assume it is a usb drive, (or it is firewire 400, firewire 800? How do you have it hooked up to the Mac? If you are using usb, I would try using a different usb cable. Same for firewire. You also might read your manual on the Lite-On drive is see if you have to throw some dip switch make it a master or slave setting on IDE.

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Bob, I had a similar problem with two LaCie external hard drives. LaCie doesn't manufacture hard drives, they only purchase drives from other companies, like Seagate, and mount those drives in LaCie external enclosures. If the drive is nearing the point of total failure, then your Mac is letting you know that point is very close. You had better find a new backup device to use. The Mac will let you access the drive for a while longer, but if you do not act, there will come a point when the Mac will not be able to read the data on the drive and any backups you have there will be lost. When you get a new external hard drive to use for backup, you may not need to do anything with the current drive that is failing, as long as you do not anticipate that you will need anything from the backups that it contains. You can set up the new device as your primary backup. I would then advise that you perform a total backup on the new device ASAP, so that you are not left without at least one good backup.

Hi please explain more information about your problem. before any further assistance try to check it on other computers and see if its working or not if yes then take a full backup quickly, if not then: try replace the USB/SATA/PATA cable and check if it is working or not. if yes then take a full backup quickly, if not then: 1-this is an external drive: 1-1: it use as a normal external HDD for backing up data/movie/music/pics/etc.: option number 1:try to fix its partition clusters/sectors with some software like easeus partition recovery or ... option number 2:try to format it and then recover its data via recovery applications like easeus or "get data ntfs back" or... note: in all scenarios you may lost some files or content 1-2 it is used for speed up your computer or has the MBR or EFI boot partition and has an OS installed on it: try to fix its partition clusters/sectors with some softwares like easeus partition recovery or ... note: in all scenarios you may lost some files or content 2-this is an internal drive: 1-change the SATA/PATA cable 2-check its sectors or clusters via software (windows check disk or windows defragment option) for bad sectors or cluster issues 3-try to fix its partition clusters/sectors with some software like easeus partition recovery or ... if none of my solution works or software found some bad sectors that could not resolve it then or even you couldn't format the drive then: maybe it has a hardware fault and there is not much you can do about it by yourself and you should go for warranty service or replacement or asking some expert companies for recovering your data via some special hardware that it may cost you too much. best regards

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