How to Solve LaCie Hard Drive Not Showing up on Windows 10

Overview of LaCie hard drive

Utilizing advanced technology and designs, LaCie hard drive is built for individuals and companies to backup data, store multi-media files and expand storage space with its excellent performance and reliability. However, similar to Seagate 2TB external hard drive beeping and not recognized, when you try to check your files and applications stored on your LaCie external hard drive but find out it does not show up on your computer when your plug it in. The next section will tell you how to solve LaCie hard drive not showing up Windows 10.

How do I fix my LaCie external hard drive not detected by Windows?

How to deal with LaCie drive not showing up on Windows 10? There are several ways offered for you.

• Method 1. Make sure your external hard drive turns on
• Method 2. Try another USB port and computer
• Method 3. Run the CHKDSK to check the drive
• Method 4. Reinstall drivers
• Method 5. Run troubleshooting via Disk management
• Suggestion: backup your LaCie hard drive in advance

Method 1. Make sure your external hard drive turns on

This step is easily ignored by users when they try to fix LaCie external hard drive not showing up Windows 10.  Some desktop external hard drives supplement themselves with dedicated power cables.

In this case, you need to check out your power cable. You can plug it into another power outlet or swap the cable if possible.

Method 2. Try another USB port and computer

If method 1 doesn’t solve the problem, move to the second trouble check. The reason your LaCie hard drive not recognized Windows 10 may not lie with your device, but rather with the port used to connect with your computer. There may be dust accumulation and dust buildup over time easily, which may cause connection problems sometimes.

You can unplug your hard drive from the port and re-plug it into another USB port to see the result. Or try to re-plug your LaCie external hard drive into another available computer. When the Lacie hard drive shows up or can be detected by the computer, it works.

Method 3. Run the CHKDSK to check the drive

Now you have checked the external connections between LaCie hard drive and the devices. If it still not shows up, then the problem lies with the hard drive itself. Your LaCie hard drive won’t show up when a bad sector is detected on it. CHKDSK, a built-in utility of Windows can help you troubleshoot issues with your drives.

Step 1. Plug in your LaCie hard drive to your computer properly. Then search for Command Prompt and then choose to Run as administrator.

Step 2. In the next window, type the command Chkdsk X: /r and then hit Enter key.

✍Note: here X represents your assigned hard drive number.

Step 3. Wait for the scan to finish. Afterward, you can reconnect your hard drive to your computer to go.

Method 4. Reinstall drivers

If the above methods don’t help you, then uninstall and reinstall your USB driver on the computer.

Step 1. Press Windows + X key simultaneously on the keyboard and select Device Manager.

Step 2. Then locate the USB driver under Disk Drives. (Here we take another hard drive as an example)

Step 3. Right-click the drive and select Uninstall device. 

Step 4. You need to restart your computer at this step, after restarting, your USB driver will automatically be installed.

Job done, now connect your LaCie external hard drive through USB and check if it responds.

Method 5. Run troubleshooting via Disk management

If the above methods are not working for you. You can turn to troubleshooter via the Windows built-in utility management program----Disk Management. However, when you open Disk Management, there are different states and you need to follow the respective methods below.

Case 1. LaCie shows as Raw, or Unsupported---Format to Reset

Step 1. Right-click on This PC and select Manage.

Step 2. Click Disk Management, and then right-click the Raw external hard drive partition, then choose Format.

Step 3. Select NTFS as the file system for the partition and click OK button

Case 2. Lacie shows as New Volume with No Drive Letter---Assign a New Drive Letter

Step 1. As step 1 of case 1, open Disk Management.

Step 2. Right-click the external hard drive partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths…

Step 3. In the pop-up window, click Add to assign the drive letter to your LaCie drive.

Case 3. LaCie Displays as unallocated—Create New Volume

Step 1. Open Disk Management and locate the unallocated space of LaCie external hard drive.

Step 2. Right-click on the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume.

Step 3. Assign a new drive letter to the disk, set NTFS as its file system, then click Next.

Step 4. Then follow the on-screen guide notes to create a new partition on the LaCie external hard disk and click Finish to complete.

Suggestion: backup your LaCie hard drive in advance

Now you can solve Lacie hard drive not showing up Windows 10 with the previous methods. Sincerely, we advise you to backup your hard drives in advance in case of any data loss possibilities. AOMEI Backupper Standard is an excellent and reliable software to backup your LaCie hard drive with a few clicks.

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Next, I’ll show you how to backup your LaCie external hard drive. Here we take Disk Backup as an example.

✎Preparations:
◆Now connect your LaCie hard drive to your computer and make sure it can be detected.
◆Download AOMEI Backupper and launch it.

Step 1. On the left page click Backup and then click Disk Backup.

Step 2. Click Add Disk and select your LaCie external hard drive as the source disk.

Step 3. Select the destination location where you want to store your backup images.

Step 4. Then click Start Backup.

Conclusion

Surely you will solve LaCie hard drive not showing up Windows 10 with the previous methods. In this article we introduced AOMEI Backupper to you. It has been recommended by millions of users due its high efficiency and reliability. Apart from being a powerful backup expert, it serves as a helper to sync USB with Google Drive in need as well.