With the drive connected open disk management search for computer management disk management.
Lacie rugged shows up in device manager.
If device manager shows a yellow or red mark on the external drive it s likely that this is a driver problem.
The drive has been formatted ntfs and shows up in my computer as f.
When connected by usb.
Because my zbook 17 gen3 only has thunderbolt 3 ports i had to get a kanex adapter to connect it to the laptop from the lacie s legacy thunderbolt.
A short troubleshooting guide when the lacie network assistant can t find a lacie network device on the network.
Here you can see what the drive looks like to windows.
5big and 8big thunderbolt 2 not detected by lacie raid manager v2 5.
Lacie raid manager v2 for mac manually installing software updates when lrm s auto update won t.
Open device manager click view and select show hidden devices expand universal serials bus controllers right click each usb hub and select uninstall device.
Perhaps other win users have encountered this.
Restart pc and reconnect the external hard drive check if the lacie device shows up in disk management.
If you right click on the lacie drive shown you may have the option to format the partition s ntfs for windows or you could convert the entire disk to a mbr disk.
To install the latest driver use these steps.
Use the following checklist to troubleshoot.
I have some important files saved on the usb drive so i need a secure way that can help me make the usb drive to appear and show up on this pc without losing any data.
I ve got a 1tb lacie rugged drive with usb 3 and thunderbolt.
I have a problem that my external usb drive shows up in device manager but it doesn t display in the windows explorer.
Is the nas powered on and connected to your router.