When i go to try and use my Lacie d2 500gb quadra the blue light comes on and it makes the start up noise, i can hear the harddrive disk start to spin but it does not make the usual clicking sound that it makes when it properly boots and mounts to the desktop, also the fan does not start to spin at all, is my harddrive FUBAR meaning all my ****ing data, including loads of final cut files is gone bye bye or is it just that the fan is broken and therefore the harddrive wont turn on so that it doesnt over heat? any idea and any ways to fix it? im guessin lacie may need to be called in altho im not sure if its still in warranty etc.
Take the drive out and put it in a external case and see if that helps. if not the drive is dead.
external drive in which the drive wont show up on My Computer but when the external drive was plugged into an ubuntu machine the drive was being detected and working just fine.731 views
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I have the same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated, running through a firewire cable and the lacie update driver does not recognize that it is plugged in.
i have the same problem, system does not regconize drive, LaCie does not click and load.
I had a similar issue w/lacie ethernet bigdisk 1TB. Couldn't access drive, found that it was making the clackety clack drive death sound. Powered down and tried to restart but no blue light, apparently dead. Noticed that the box was hot to the touch, I think it always ran hot. Pulled drives and connected directly to computer w/sata connector, drives tested good. Put all back together but still didn't work. Put in freezer overnight, pulled out and hooked up - was able to get blue light to come on but nothing else, no ethernet lights. Strange, the blue light would come on when I plugged the unit in, I didn't have to press the button, nothing wrong inside of case, but unit not really functioning. FIX: As a last resort, I pulled the circuit board, baked it in the oven at 360 degrees F for 15 minutes, immediately took the board from the oven to the freezer for 15 minutes. Put back together and the dang thing works perfectly now. I soldered the fan to the internal 12v line so it runs continuously and now it runs very cool. My guess is that the controller had a cold solder joint somewhere.
Similar problem. Drive sounds like it is trying to start up but then nothing. Is this problem solvable or repairable?
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