How to Reset LaCie External Hard Drive with Top 2 Ways

Need to reset LaCie external hard drive

LaCie external hard drives are reliable and efficient devices that allow you to store and access your important data whenever you need it. However, sometimes you may encounter an issue with your LaCie external hard drive, such as insufficient storage space, virus attack, it not being recognized by your computer or it not working properly, etc. In such cases, resetting your LaCie external hard drive can often help resolve the issues.

In this article, we will guide you through the process of how to reset LaCie external hard drive to factory settings with provided practical methods. After restore to its factory state, you can experience its original performance.

How to erase LaCie external hard drive (2 ways)

In this part, you can use the Toolkit utility, or apply for a professional disk wipe software to factory reset your hard drive.

Method 1. Use Toolkit

✨ Tip: Before we dive into the steps, it is important to note that resetting your LaCie external hard drive will erase all the data on the drive. Therefore, it is crucial to backup your important data before proceeding with the reset.

Then you can follow the steps to factory reset LaCie with Toolkit:

1. Connect LaCie external hard drive to your PC. (Here I use Rugged SECURE hard drive).

2. Download and install Toolkit. Open it.

3. On the Main Menu, click on the LaCie Rugged SECURE device.

4. Click FACTORY RESET and follow the on screen instructions to complete the reset process.

Method 2. More secure way to reset LaCie external hard drive

Except using Toolkit tool, you have another choice to reset LaCie hard drive. That is to try the best disk wiper – AOMEI Backupper Professional to completely delete files on LaCie hard drive and make it unable to recover. 

It cleans the hard drive with its useful feature “Disk Wipe” to overwrite hard drive sectors with a zero value or using other wiping methods. It is designed to run on all Windows PC operating systems, like Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP, and some of its outstanding features are listed below:

◐ Support various disk brands. You can factory reset different brand hard drive except LaCie, but also WD, Samsung, HP, Dell, Seagate, etc.
◑ Support wipe multiple devices. You are allowed to wipe not only external hard drives, but also wipe C drive, a USB drive, hard disk drive, SSD as well as SD card.
◐ 4 wiping methods. It offers you with 4 wiping methods, they are Fill sectors with zero, Fill sectors with random data, DoD 52220.22-M, Gutmann.

Click the button to download and install this powerful disk wipe tool on your PC.

Follow the steps below to learn how to erase LaCie external hard drive completely with AOMEI Backupper.

Step 1. Launch AOMEI Backupper Professional. Go to Tools > Disk Wipe and click it.

Step 2. In the wiping type window, you will be provided with 2 choices: Wipe selected partitions or unallocated space on the disk, Wipe disk. Select Wipe disk to wipe all sectors on the disk at once and click Next.

Step 3. Select the LaCie external hard drive you want to wipe and click Next.

Step 4. In Wiping Method window, select Fill sectors with Zero and click Start to continue the process.

Step 5. You will then be taken to the Progress page where you can see the status of the task completion. If you want to stop it, you can click Cancel.

✍ Notes:
✄ This feature doesn’t support wiping dynamic disks.
✄ As you can see that safer wiping method comes with a slower wiping speed. If you want a safer choice, you can choose the other three different wiping methods: Fill sectors with random data, DoD 52220.22-M, Gutmann.

Wrapping up

From this article, you will learn how to reset LaCie external hard drive with provided solutions easily. Whether you use Toolkit or a more secure disk wipe tool AOMEI Backupper, they are both practical ways to clean all data and make them unrecoverable. But I suggest you to use the professional factory reset tool, cause AOMEI Backupper offers you different security levels of data wipe and make it unrecoverable by any means of recovery. You can also use this free file sync tool to copy files from Synology NAS to PC.