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Oktober

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Dec 16, 2008
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For some reason my Lacie 3TB external HDD will now not mount to my iMac when I connect via Thunderbolt cable - The hard drive light flashes and that is all. However, when I connect via USB cable all is fine.

The Lacie is formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Any help and advice on how I can fix this issue, that would be great.
 

Bigwaff

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The iMac is the one in your signature? What model year? What model and year Lacie external HDD? Connected via Thunderbolt 1/2/3 ? Any adapters or docks in the mix?
 

Oktober

macrumors regular
Original poster
Dec 16, 2008
180
2
United Kingdom of Great Britain
Apologies all. yes the Mac in question is the one listed in my signature, late-2015 27” iMac 5k running Monterey (which I have just done a fresh install of OSX Monterey - latest update).

The Lacie hard drive is a LaCieD2 3TB thunderbolt 2 (see attached pictures).

As the drive works fine connected via usb, there must be a problem with the thunderbolt side of things. But the light flashes on the LaCie when connected via thunderbolt.
 

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