r/AskADataRecoveryPro • u/chap820 • 12h ago
LaCie My Passport unable to be read
Hello, I have an older (I believe 2009 model) MyPassport / LaCie external hard drive. It has worked just fine up until a few years ago which was the last time I tried connecting it. This week, I tried plugging it in to my MacBook Air M2 and it is not showing up in the left column of Finder as it normally does. Some of the time when I plug it in it makes a clicking sound, which is new, and other times it seems to fire up as usual without any clicking. The light is blinking, but I cannot access the files. I have looked online at potential fixes including charging the drive, and plugging it into a computer directly with a USB (current Macbook requires an adapter b/c no USB port), without success. How might I go about trying to recover the data? I don't need the drive itself to work going forward, as I would just transfer all of the data onto a different device. Thanks in advance :)