Gifted with LaCie Ext HD
Posted: 19 Oct 2013, 07:51
Hello Forum -
My wife the hairdresser got what my Device Manager calls a LaCie d2 Quadra v3 USB Device (used) for free from one of her clients. It's a silver upright tower ext HD with one big blue pushbutton/blue light indicator on the front. The LaCie website did not recognize the serial no., and I am assuming it is a 1TB drive. Her winXP laptop wouldn't mount it so I tried it on my winXP desktop and got the same result. I have unplugged my regular backup drive so that the LaCie is the only ext HD on my system. I searched the forums, and tried a utility to clean up and remove old USB Mass Storage Drivers. It deleted a lot of stuff but it didn't magically solve the problem. I then found TestDisk and the basic tutorial, and answered all questions as shown, and got the following screens at the 68% and "finished" points. This unit is a complete black box to me and there is no data on it I want to save. A complete erasure is fine as long as utility in an winXP environment can be established. But if it won't mount, I can't do anything with it. Previous owner may have been running a Mac, though I ran this test set for Intel (PC) Any advice ?
My wife the hairdresser got what my Device Manager calls a LaCie d2 Quadra v3 USB Device (used) for free from one of her clients. It's a silver upright tower ext HD with one big blue pushbutton/blue light indicator on the front. The LaCie website did not recognize the serial no., and I am assuming it is a 1TB drive. Her winXP laptop wouldn't mount it so I tried it on my winXP desktop and got the same result. I have unplugged my regular backup drive so that the LaCie is the only ext HD on my system. I searched the forums, and tried a utility to clean up and remove old USB Mass Storage Drivers. It deleted a lot of stuff but it didn't magically solve the problem. I then found TestDisk and the basic tutorial, and answered all questions as shown, and got the following screens at the 68% and "finished" points. This unit is a complete black box to me and there is no data on it I want to save. A complete erasure is fine as long as utility in an winXP environment can be established. But if it won't mount, I can't do anything with it. Previous owner may have been running a Mac, though I ran this test set for Intel (PC) Any advice ?