Question about LaCie (300728U) 250 GB Hard Drive

Power light blinking orange/yellow. does not mount or recognise

I was copying an avi file from the 250GB lacie porsche hard drive (USB2) and the USB cable got removed while the copy was in progress. I tried restarting the computer but the hard drive isnt regonised. it makes a strange noise when turned on, a different noise from before the problem began. also the power light on the hard drive now blinks orange and yellow (whereas before it was always orange). i have tried scanning for new hardware and it cannot find the hard drive. i have also tried pluggin it into another computer and this does not work either. please if anyone could help i would be extremely grateful.

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Free_Dragon Dec 01, 2007

I am having a similar problem. I have a lacie 500 gb D2 Quandra... for some reason it tries to mount (the light is solid) and then after a few seconds it starts flashing. I have tried two different computers -- an imac intel core duo 2 and a powerbook g4 to no avail... can anyone offer a suggestion/solution? Should I really try to take it out of it's case? It's less than a month old but I have important footage that I need to be working with so I want to try and salvage what is on the HD.... sigh... please any advice would be appreciated!

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greyhed Jul 01, 2008

Lacie hard drive used as back-up. Switched ontoday to complete backup and light is blinking away. Tried to restart computer. About to disconnect and try on another compuyter. Tried with different software. Still no joy.
Anonymous Sep 22, 2008

same problem..
no explanation :(

same problem..
no explanation :(
Anonymous Oct 26, 2008

same exact thing happened to me. cant to squat.
Anonymous Dec 28, 2008

Same thing happened to me a week ago.
akaCB Jan 12, 2009

have the same problem with out the noise.

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Anonymous

I had the same problem on my lacie 500 gig. i went ahead and opened the lacie hd and put it in another external casing. and it worked. no data was lost. as for the problem i would guess that the lacie external casing circuts must of shorted.

Posted on Nov 04, 2007

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Posted on Jan 15, 2007

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SOURCE: I was copying an avi

hi.
maybe problem is caused by your Power supply.
so i recommend you to do these:
1- remove the main hard drive and only connect "250GB lacie porsche hard drive".
and see is it recognized or not.
2- go to the bios (with pressing "delete key" at start of turning on) and navigate to power center.
then enable power saving mode.

Posted on Jan 29, 2011

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