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Old 19-10-2006, 07:16 PM
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Help! Lacie external drive not working!
Help, I have just switched on my Lacie drive, which was working fine yesterday, and today it isn't working.

I have 2 of them, one working. I have swapped all the cables, so I know that isn't the problem.

The light comes on but it never pops up as an external drive in Windows. Any ideas or recommendations of software?

Thanks very much!
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Old 19-10-2006, 07:45 PM
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Did you have them BOTH connected at the same time?
Can you connect EITHER of them one at a time?
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I have always had them both connected at the same time.

Now doesn't work either with them both connected or just with the dead one.

Usually, when I have had a dead drive, windows can see it but can't access it - meaning recovery software can usually pull some data off it.
This time - nothing!

200Gb of data on the disk. Nothing critical but a big shame none the less.
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Old 19-10-2006, 08:53 PM
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Are you saying that the drive shows in Windows?
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No it doesn't. That is the big p*sser!
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So in that case either the drive is incorrectly set to master instead of slave or vice-versa OR another drive has taken up a drive letter originally used by the LaCie drive.
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hmmm try this....

*right click on "My Computer" left click on "Manage" left click on "removeable storage" and see if they turn up there.

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or try the Disk management button which is just below removeable storage....

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or try the Disk management button which is just below removeable storage....

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Tried all that before, Windows simply can't see the drive.

I don't think it is a master / slave issue as there are no jumpers accessable to change.

This is the 3rd Lacie external drive I have had stop working in the last 2 years. Maybe there is a lesson there.
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I lost 116 gig of MP3s due to a hard disk failure last year. My brother lost about 80 gig of videos this year. I still use externals, but I backup anything I want to save permanently onto DVD or DVD-9 now.
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