There are no products available that fit the selection you requested. Lacie porsche design mobile drive user manual optional. It started with the download screen and then disappeared. For years i had it connected to my mac and it worked find. Moving the slider to the left will reduce the size of the lacie share volume for windows and mac.
Still connected via ip over thunderbolt, we mounted the shared lacie volume on the other mac pro and ran the tests again. Watch the 1minute video and acquire the steps to recover. If you want to transfer files from a mac to windows pc and vice versa using an external portable hard drive then you have to have the external drive formatted in. If the external hard drive is pre formatted for mac, disk management will list 3 partitions. Do not stack multiple lacie porsche design mobile drives as they may overheat. Page 18 lacie desktop hard drive formatting and partitioning page user manual in the volume information section, enter a name important info. A window will pop up where you can choose the format ntfs, fat32, or exfat. My lacie d2 quadra usb device is not recognized in my vostro all in one pc. Its been set up properly for a week, three partitions, 2 for backup ccc and time machine and a 3rd i call lacie windows which i use to put in data files. Download free lacie ethernet agent for macos mac informer. Apple recommends for each volume partition, choose the volume for that unless you have a specific reason to use the. Mac os journaled is the formatting option for mac and ntfs or msdoc is the formatting option for pc.
Open the lacie setup volume on your desktop and then double click lacie. Recently my external lacie 2big 6gig thunderbolt raid stopped mounting. Lacie harddrive wont show up i have a lacie external 1tb usb 2. I have an external lacie drive as a backup where i keep important files i also have a second seagate backup for the same files. On your mac, select an item, then choose file get info. How to fix external hard drive not recognized on mac like windows, mac also detects an external drive automatically. Moving the slider to the left will reduce the size of the compatible volume called lacie share on some products for windows and mac. Aborted lacie setup assistant while it was formatting. Working my brand new 5k retina with latest yosemite, and lacie rugged 1tb thunderbolt. I suppose i could do the initial formatting on a windows computer, and format it for windows, because mac can. Lacie 2big thunderbolt raid problem macrumors forums. Compatible volume called lacie share on some products for windows and mac.
Lacie ethernet agent for windows lacie ethernet agent is an application designed to help customers use the lacie nas products 2big network and ethernet disk. Lacie 8tb 2big dock thunderbolt 3 raid storage next gallery image. Lacie drive needs to be used by mac and pc macrumors forums. Make sure the allocation unit size is set to default and type in a volume label.
Ive checked all cables and tried mounting the volume using disk utility. Now, i cannot see my lacie external hard drive connected by firewire 400mb. What im wondering is, could i install the two drives in the lacie enclosure into a usb3 raid enclosure without losing. If you do not want the lacie share volume, move the slider all the way to the left. Open the lacie setup volume on your desktop and then doubleclick lacie setup. Lacie d2 thunderbolt 3 usbc user manual formatting and. Mac pro 2019 mac pro late 20 mac mini 2018 and later. When you turn it on it always shows up as two drives. Lacie external hard drive set up guide manual for mac. Video tutorial on external hard drive data recovery no matter what brand of external hard drive you have, lacie, seagate, western digital, samsung, etc, recoverit can help you recover data from external hard drives easily and quickly just as the video demonstrates to you. Page 11 a window prompt alerts you that the disk will be formatted. I then attempted to repair the main internal boot drive but unfortunately it would not complete. For this, click on file and then click new finder window. Step 1 first of all, look for the external hard drive in the finder window.
If you know youre going to use a drive on both mac and windows, you. I use a mac desktop, about a year old, running yosemite 10. Page 15 a window prompt alerts you that the disk will be formatted. Once you have made your selection, click next to begin the format. This also allows you to restore time machine backups on windows. The 10gb file write was about 6 percent slower on the external drive share. You can use lacie setup assistant to format your lacie hard drive when it is first connected to a computer mac or windows. Mac make sure the storage device is connected to and mounted on the computer. Click go at the upper right of your desktop and go to utilities, and then open disk utility. Next, we connected a lacie little big disk thunderbolt with two 512gb ssds in a striped array to one of the mac pros and enabled file sharing on a volume on that drive.
Change the view to show all devices instead of the default which is show only volumes. Windows cant normally read mac formatted drives, and will offer to erase them instead. Compare portable, usb, desktop and external lacie hard drives and shop online. If you choose different criteria, you may get more accurate results. Change permissions for files, folders, or disks on mac. Select your drive from the list and rightclick on it. It can be used to set network configuration and makes it easy to mount shares volumes. Make sure the storage device is connected to and mounted on the computer. We approximate your location from your internet ip address by matching it to a geographic region or from the location entered during your previous visit to apple. Simply trying to delete the lacie share partition in disk utility doesnt erase it.
You should be able to buy a cheap enclosure and just take out the drive from the lacie and put it in the new one and back stuff up and then put the drive back into the lacie enclosure and return it to lacie for a replacement. Select the user or group, then click the remove button below the list. Open the lacie setup volume in computer my computer for windows xp and doubleclick lacie setup. If you send it back to lacie, they might just send you a new one and you will lose your data. A fat32 partition can reach 2tb when formatted on a mac. Select the readonly external hard drive on the left window. Before connecting the lacie device, confirm the usb port on your computer. Lsa assists you creating a single or two partitions. Lacie setup assistant helps you to quickly format the storage device according to your needs. If you do not want the compatible lacie share volume, move the slider all the way to the left. I just bought a lacie 4tb porsche drive external from the apple store. What you need to know about lacie setup assistant lsa. Windows lacie setup assistant will format the hard drive.
Mac os extended journaled will be the best format to choose for the external drive. You can use lacie setup assistant to format your lacie hard drive when it is first connected to a computer windows or mac. How to share an external hard drive between mac and windows. I restarted holding c to force the cd to boot and it did. Lacie porsche design mobile drive user manual getting connected. Rightclick on the unallocated space, and select the new simple volume option on the popup menu, as shown above. The drive partition lacie setup mounts on your desktop mac or in computer. The application is designed to run only once assisting in formatting your device for the first time. Move the slider to the left to reduce the size of the lacie share partition.
You can use the following guide to fix readonly external hard drive in disk utility without formatting. Lacie external drive not appearing anywhere on mac. How to recover data from lacie external hard drive 1. How to set up a networked hard drive with a mac cnet. What you need to know about lacie setup assistant lsa lacie. Portable drive user manual getting connected lacie. Sharing a storage drive over wifi is a great way to access all your important files across multiple devices. Lacie hard drive not recognized by windows 10 microsoft. All connected storage devices, partitions or disk images are displayed in the left column.
Mac os can read ntfs volumes but cannot natively write to them. Its visible in about this mac system report thunderbolt but not visible in disk utility or finder. Lacie rugged usbc user manual optional formatting and. Lacie rugged secure user manual optional formatting and. But to get a hard drive to be compatible for both mac. Click the add button below the list, select a user or group, then click select. Doing the initial formatting on a mac, i can only format it for a mac, but i want to be able to use it on both mac and windows computers. Meaning the external lacie drives i also tried putting the leopard disc in and that also was unreadable. The results werent as fast as when we tested using a folder residing on the mac pros, but the differences werent huge.