The disk gets ejected.
How to format lacie rugged for pc.
To create a new partition right click on the volume and select new simple volume.
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This article explains about file systems and provides instruction to format a drive on windows and mac.
The partition must be available to format.
If the first scan cannot find your data you can go to a deep scan with the all around recovery mode which will search more files from lacie hard disk.
Click on the more menu icon for the volume you want to optimize.
There are two options.
Connect lacie rugged secure to your computer.
From the list of storage devices in the middle of the disk management window locate your lacie device.
Newer seagate and lacie branded external drives come preformatted exfat some older drives are formatted for pcs some for macs and some of them have special utilities allowing them to work between both without formatting.
Follow the on screen instructions.
If it is currently formatted right click on the partion and then choose delete.
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1 connection with usb2 0 from lacie to mac it works can read and write to lacie formatted in ntfs 2 connection with firewire 800 from lacie to mac it does not work.
On the main menu click on the lacie rugged secure device.
View and configure important operating settings on your lacie drive.
Recover data from lacie drive.
Here are the results.
1 connect my lacie to my pc and formatted it in ntfs format.
2 installed paragon ntfs onto my mac 3 connected lacie to mac.
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Scan lacie external hard drive.
Optimize let toolkit choose the optimal format for your computer system and configure the volume for you with just a few clicks.
After the scan you can check all recoverable files.