1. Lacie Drivers For Mac

If you start up from your Mac OS X installation disc (for the currently installed Mac OS X release), and leave it at the Installer screen, does it ever shut down unexpectedly. If it does not, the cause may be your currently installed system. As a test, try creating a new admin user account in System Preferences Accounts pane. Log out and log in to the new account.

Software Software. The LaCie Shortcut button is not compatible with eSATA. Go to System Preferences on the Mac or Control Panel on the PC to check the. LaCie ShortCut Button, Free Download by LaCie. Mac › System Tools › LaCie ShortCut Button › Download. Alternative software.

In the new account, do you experience these problems. If you do not, the cause is probably something in your normal user account. If the problem recurs, then the cause is probably related to the overall system installation. If you back up your personal data, erase the drive, and reinstall, that may resolve he problem. Or you can troubleshoot some more.

Please post back. Nov 27, 2009 4:01 AM.

It came with 10.5.6 pre-installed, but it was updated to 10.5.8 when you ran Software Update. That would be normal. 10.5.8 is the last version of Leopard, before Snow Leopard (10.6) was released. Insert that installation disc for Leopard. Restart with the C key held down to force the restart from the optical drive.

You will get to a screen to first select your language. After that is the first Installer screen. I would leave it there for a while as the test to see if it shuts off unexpectedly (when booted from a different system). If it remains running, you may want to go up to the menu bar; under Utilities, select to run Disk Utility.

In the Disk Utility window's sidebar, select the internal drive. On the +First Aid+ tab, run +Repair Disk+. Note if it reports any errors, and if errors are reported, note if they are repaired. You can then quit Disk Utility and Installer, and restart normally.

Lacie Drivers For Mac

Nov 27, 2009 5:53 AM. I managed to start it from from the installation disc and kept it on the 'Welcome-screen' for the whole night. This morning I restarted it normally and after a certain time it shut down on me again (I was busy in Finder this time). So I restarted it again via the installation disc and ran 'verify disc' as well as 'repair disc'. No errors nor repairs needed what so ever: 'The Macintosh HD seems to be ok' it said after both the verify and repair commands.

An additional question: when I copied all my pictures, movies, doc's, etc from my Seagate FreeAgent (USB 2.0) external drive, which is Windows formatted (with the Mac I can only read from it, not write) I also copied some.exe files and autorun stuff (Windows related) onto my Mac HD. Could that influence the good/stable working of OS X??? I started checking/deleting all Windows related (.exe, etc) files on my HD (only in folders I'm I copied on there of course). I'll keep this thread updated. Nov 27, 2009 9:25 PM. About the external drive that is formatted for Windows, if the format is NTFS, Mac OS X can read it but not write it.

If it is the older (less efficient) FAT32 format, then Mac OS X should be able to read and write it. So that one is probably NTFS format. If you are not going to use that external drive with Windows going forward, you should reformat it to the Mac native format.

Run Disk Utility from Applications/Utilities/. Select the external drive in the sidebar.

Be sure to select the DRIVE and not the volume indented under the drive in the sidebar. On the Erase tab, name the volume, set the format type to +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+, and Erase it. Note: Be sure you have already copied off whatever you wanted to copy off. Regarding the.exe files, they should he harmless on the Mac. They are Windows executable files (applications), but unless you are running Windows on the Mac, all they will do is sit there and take up some space. If you can erase that external drive, you can use it for a test. Start up from the Mac OS X installation disc again, and go through Installer to target installation of Mac OS X on the external drive.

Then, with a fresh installation, you can run the iMac for a while booted from that external drive. This will be a better test than starting up from the installation disc, to see of the unexpected shut-off recurs or not.

If it does not, there is a good chance that the cause is your current system installation. If it does recur from a fresh system, then it may be hardware related. If a hardware problem seems more likely, and if the iMac is still under the one-year warranty or under AppleCare, you may want to have it looked at by a real Apple-certified technician. Nov 27, 2009 9:44 PM. Since the Seagate external drive was my earlier back-up drive for my wifes Windows XP laptop. Since she will keep on using it, I will not reformat it, but just copied all data of of it.

For my new iMac however I bought a brand new LaCie d2 quadra 1TB as back-up drive. See also my other thread This one has software onboard to prompt you to format it for mac as soon as you connect it to your mac. Which I did and it looks like the problems started from then on. Although I'm not sure, because I've been away from home for 3 weeks and during that period the iMac was switched on only a few times for a short time (by my wife, when she wanted to listen to some music).

I also bought the LaCie because it has FireWire800 on board, so booting from that external drive should be possible. With the Seagate it's not possible, I was told, because it only has USB 2.0. What I did was take a complete copy of my mac HD, the first time it shut itself down. The LaCie was just formatted using the software which popped up when you connect it for the first time.

Would I be able to boot from that drive? Or do I need to first format it again using the my mac, partition it as disired and select 'install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers'.

Do you need to select 'install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers' in order to be able to boot from a external HD? Or is taking a complete copy (is this copy really like an image that you make?) enough In other words can I run the app.' S from that external HD as I have the back-up copy now or do I need to re-format for that? I have a question about temps too. I installed (a few days ago) iStat Pro. The max recorded temps today were: HD 50 C CPU 58 C CPU Heatsink 51 C Ambient 25 C (which is not really hot) GPU Diode 59 C GPU Heatsink 50 C HD bay 50 C Mem Controller 51 C Nov 27, 2009 11:18 PM.

Intel Macs can boot from either USB 2.0 or FireWire external drives. This one has software onboard to prompt you to format it for mac as soon as you connect it to your mac. Which I did and it looks like the problems started from then on. Lacie is a Mac-oriented company, so I would be surprised if that drive was not already formatted for Mac.

If it was unformatted, it is Mac OS X that prompts you to format it, not any software on the drive. There is no auto-run feature for Mac OS X that I am aware of that would run software off the drive just by connecting a drive.

That would be dangerous, and not very secure. An Intel Mac cannot boot Mac OS 9, so installing Mac OS 9 drivers is irrelevant. It would do no harm, but It would also serve no purpose. The only reason to install Mac OS 9 drivers is if you need to connect that drive to a Mac that boots Mac OS 9, and that would be an old PowerPC machine. If you want to do the test I suggested previously, you need to install Mac OS X on that drive and select it as your startup disk. If the problem does not recur when running off a fresh system, then the cause of your problem is something in the system installed on the internal drive.

If the problem does recur with the fresh system, then the problem is likely to be hardware related. If that drive is currently empty, you might as well erase it again just to be sure it was done properly. I described how to do that with Disk Utility in the previous post. Then, installed a fresh system on that blank drive. That was also described in my last post. The steps after that depend on the results; does the problem recur when booted from a fresh system installation, or not? I'm not sure about the temps.

They do not seem unusually high. Nov 27, 2009 11:58 PM. The manual of the LaCie says that you have to launch/run their Setup Assistant before you do some optional formatting with the native disk utility program. This LaCie is either formatable for/compatible with Mac as well as Windows (depending how you format it, as you already stated). If I look 'into' the LaCie (using Finder) I see there is some additional software available: Mac Utilities (and Windows Utilities). In case of the Mac Utilities it contains software for the 'LaCie shortcut button', the LaCie '1-Click backup' and 'Silverkeeper Software' for automatic backup and file verification and also 'Intego Backup Assistant' software for datarestore for OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

This LaCie drive is compatible with Time Machine. After running their Setup Assistant, and unexpectedly shutting down of the iMac for the first time, I configured this LaCie drive to be the backup drive for Time Machine. I already have several backups on the LaCie. Do these backups include all software on my mac HD, when using Time Machine? Would I be able to boot from the LaCie like it is now with the backup(s) on there?

Or do I really need to install mac OS X on the Lacie? Before I install OS X on the LaCie, do I have to format it again (= remove everything of of it, including the existing backups?

By the way: the iMac shut down twice on me again: by double clicking on LaCie.exe (which is on the LaCie drive; I know it's a Windows thing, but it should not give a problem, should it?) and a second time (after I restarted the iMac) by double clicking on the Mac utilities.img; this is intended for Mac, so this certainly should NOT give a problem. In order to instal OS X on my LaCie, do I also restart (with the OS X install disc inserted) holding down the C-key? Will I then be able to choose which HD I actually want to install it on? Am I getting this right or is there another way?

Anyway, thanks for your interest and support, man! I'll keep this thread updated. Message was edited by: peterimac Nov 28, 2009 3:49 AM. Could you help me out on this one too?: The manual of the LaCie says that you have to launch/run their Setup Assistant before you do some optional formatting with the native disk utility program. This LaCie is either formatable for/compatible with Mac as well as Windows (depending how you format it, as you already stated). If I look 'into' the LaCie (using Finder) I see there is some additional software available: Mac Utilities (and Windows Utilities).

In case of the Mac Utilities it contains software for the 'LaCie shortcut button', the LaCie '1-Click backup' and 'Silverkeeper Software' for automatic backup and file verification and also 'Intego Backup Assistant' software for datarestore for OS X 10.4 and 10.5. This LaCie drive is compatible with Time Machine. After running their Setup Assistant, and unexpectedly shutting down of the iMac for the first time, I configured this LaCie drive to be the backup drive for Time Machine. I already have several backups on the LaCie. Do these backups include all software on my mac HD, when using Time Machine? Would I be able to boot from the LaCie like it is now with the backup(s) on there?

Or do I really need to install mac OS X on the Lacie? Before I install OS X on the LaCie, do I have to format it again (= remove everything of of it, including the existing backups? By the way: the iMac shut down twice on me again: by double clicking on LaCie.exe (which is on the LaCie drive; I know it's a Windows thing, but it should not give a problem, should it?) and a second time (after I restarted the iMac) by double clicking on the Mac utilities.img; this is intended for Mac, so this certainly should NOT give a problem.

In order to instal OS X on my LaCie, do I also restart (with the OS X install disc inserted) holding down the C-key? Will I then be able to choose which HD I actually want to install it on? Am I getting this right or is there another way? Anyway, thanks for your interest and support, man!

I'll keep this thread updated. Nov 28, 2009 4:54 PM.

I don't have any recent Lacie products. This is the support page for your Lacie drive, I believe It seems like a normal drive (not a special drive like a RAID), so I'm not sure what it is you need to run before you format it normally using Disk Utility. The included software on the drive (in the Mac Utilities folder) is just included software. I don't think it affects how the drive itself operates, and the links from the above web page may provide more recent versions. Perhaps there is new version of whatever the +Setup Assistant+ program does. I already have several backups on the LaCie. Do these backups include all software on my mac HD, when using Time Machine?

That depends on whether you excluded anything from being backed up. If you did not exclude anything, everything (except a few things like temp files and log files) should be there. However, you cannot boot from a Time Machine backup. If you have a current Time Machine backup on the Lacie drive, you may want to erase and reinstall on the internal drive. Then, you can restore your data from the backup. However, I am hesitant to recommend something that causes you do lose data if you do something inappropriate.

But ultimately, if you find that a fresh installation DOES NOT cause this problem, you will have to erase the internal drive, install a new system, and restore your personal data. If you want to test your iMac with a fresh installation, you have to install that fresh system somewhere.

You can install it on the Lacie. You do not have to erase the current data, although it would be better if the volume you are installing on was empty. Or you can install on your internal drive after erasing it. In order to instal OS X on my LaCie, do I also restart (with the OS X install disc inserted) holding down the C-key? Will I then be able to choose which HD I actually want to install it on?

Nov 28, 2009 5:16 PM. I tried to install OS X in the LaCie but it wouldn't let me.

It said that I first needed to partition (or re-format for that matter) in order to be able to install OS X. When OS X is installed on the LaCie (only formatted as 1 partition) can I then still use it as my backup drive (using Time Machine)?

Or do I need to make 2 partitions?: one for OS X and the other for backups. And if backups and OS X are on the LaCie, can I consider it a clone of what I have on the Mac HD (extra software/apps not taken into account)? I started preparing another external HD (my Seagate) to make a Time Machine copy first, before I start 'playing around'. Just to be safe Nov 29, 2009 9:03 PM. The system installation on the Lacie would just be for the test. You can keep it on there and use the drive for other storage, but you can also erase it after you are done with the test. Capacitors and inductors pdf. The purpose of putting it on the external drive is to try it without messing with the current installation on the internal drive.

The test is to see if your iMac works properly if started up from a new system installation. If the test shows that the iMac does run properly from a new installation, there is a very good chance that the cause of your problem is the current system on the internal drive. Then, after making sure you have a good backup of at least your personal data, you need to erase the internal drive and put a new system there. You can restore your data after making sure the iMac works properly. Nov 29, 2009 9:26 PM. Apple Footer This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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