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Lacie 500gb Dead - Recovery Options?
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Sep 17, 2005, 10:59 PM
 
My lacie enclosure went wonky on me tonight. I have another friend with a lacie 500g and best we can surmise is that my power supply shorted out, and killed the logic/raid/whatever board. With his supply, my drives will properly spin up and hum along, but I can't access them. With my power supply now, the blue light turns on--and that's it.

So does anybody know what my options are?

Can I buy another 500g big disk, put my drives in it, and pray it works.

Is it possible to put both drives in my mac and have disk utility recognize them as a Raid 0 array without having to initialize them or write drivers to the disks or some such nonsense.

Can I put them in my pc desktop, which has a hardware raid ide interface, call it raid 0 and access it this way.

Or do I just go to Wal-Mart and buy a shotgun and start shooting it?

There is data that I would love to get off of it. I can live without it, but would prefer not to.

Anything you could suggest would be great.

Thanks,

-S
     
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Sep 17, 2005, 11:35 PM
 
ummm... Call LaCie?
     
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Sep 17, 2005, 11:38 PM
 
Out of warranty.
     
   
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