[X4U] LaCie 1tb hard drive going wrong

[John Baltutis]

On 12/18/08, onnythan <jonnythanster at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a 1tb LaCie drive that I've been using for Time Machine on a PPC G5
> (OS X 10.5.5).
>
> Then it went wrong, refusing to mount, and Disk Utility, Drive Genius and
> Disk Warrior couldn't fix it. With the latter, attempting to fix it caused
> the system to crash.
>
> I tried re-formatting with Disk Utility, but this refused to finish after
> leaving it running for an hour.
>
> So I successfully re-formatted using Drive Genius. But then Time Machine
> reported the back-up was unsuccessful. So I ran Drive Genius to try and fix
> the drive, and this caused the system to crash.
>
> Now the system crashes if I so much as turn the drive on!

Time to contact LaCie. My guess it's a goner.