Please help me! My Lacie external drive is playing up!

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James Wolujewic

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Dear anyone who can help!!

For no apparant reason, my D2 160 GB Lacie External Hard drive is behaving rather oddly! It is making strange noises... like a clicking sound when I access it... and it is also now not possible to write things to it. When I try, it says: The finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "whatever file" could not be read or written It's got no problem with me copying things from it though.

When I am running Logic Pro, I cannot record to my Lacie disk either. And I cannot import songs into my iTunes library (which is kept on the lacie).

Lacie's website suggests that either the drive is 'bad', or the power supply is broke (but I've tried another one, and it's the same result), or the drive is not getting enough power from the bus (but my firewire setup hasn't been changed at all)

If anyone who has any idea of what I should, then please reply! I'm worried that just maybe it's the end of the road for the drive! But I hope not! It's only about 15 months old!

Thank you in advance!


James.
 
Sounds like the drive is giving up the ghost. Anyway you can transfer the drive itself into a new USB/Firewire drive housing to rule out any power supply or case hardware issues?
If that's the same drive I'm thinking of, a friend of mine had one just like it die on him after the same amount of time.
 
me too iball. it was a LaCie porche drive that died around the same time (perhaps a few months earlier actually). It turned out the disk itself was fine - just the enclosure that needed replacing. Still using the HD 1 year later.

needless to say, I no longer by LaCie no matter how pretty their products are.
 
I helped a friend out with a LaCie drive that was clicking away and giving him all kinds of access problems, and it turned out it was because he'd bought it pre-formatted as an MS-DOS volume. As the filesystem grew more complex his G4 PowerBook had a harder and harder time accessing and modifying files.

We reformatted the drive as HFS+, and it runs fine now. Just another possibility.

You could also set it on fire. Solves many problems.
 
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