If it does work and Windows can see it, your enclosure electronics have failed and will need to be replaced. Remove the drive from the enclosure as in the Seatools test and purchase a drive "caddy" here for under $20 US: Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter CB-ISATAU2 - Ĭonnect your LaCie drive to the caddy and connect to any working computer you have via usb. If Seatools test passes, it could be enclosure electronics.
Run BOTH short and long tests on the drive if Seatools returns any errors your drive has failed and needs to be replaced. You can download the free Seatools drive diagnostic from my signature below and test the drive by removing it from the enclosure and putting it inside of a desktop computer you have access to. If the LaCie doesn't work on a different computer, it's quite likely to be a drive failure or a failure of the electronics inside the drive enclosure. If it works on that other computer, but not yours, you most likely have a problem with your Windows or possibly 1 or more bad usb ports on the 1st computer you were trying to connect it to. Try connecting the LaCie drive up to another computer. The most common problem in external drives are that the drive itself fails or the electronics in the enclosure fails.
#Lacie hd enclosure drivers
I have a LaCie 250GB drive that I used for hundreds of client backups, and it only needed drivers for Win98/ME/2000 computers. And if it's a desktop or laptop computer.Ĭhecking the LaCie support site, there are no drivers for this model for any of the modern Windows versions (XP-Windows8.1) as they are not needed with USB. Please let us know what version of Windows you are running on the computer you are trying to connect the external drive to.