LaCie Rugged Hard Drive "Appears To Be OK" But Won't Mount

So, I've been looking over a bunch of different boards and have yet to receive an answer that fits my situation. My situation being: I'm using a 1TB Rugged LaCie hard drive that decided it didn't want to mount to my desktop(s) anymore. I'm using an iMac with Mavericks and a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard, neither of which will mount my hard drive. I updated Mavericks just in case as well. I opened disk utility, verified, and repaired it. It said that "Everything appears to be OK" on both accounts on both computers. After doing this I shut down the computer, unplugged everything and waited for 15 minutes. When I plugged everything back in it still wouldn't mount. So, I tried different cables, both firewire and usb cables and still nothing. The hard drive spins without any weird sounds, but for some reason won't mount. While I was working on Ableton, Ableton froze and I had to force quit it. After force quitting it I opened the program back up and the hard drive no longer wanted to work. Any help would be appreciated. I really don't want have to recover my data or get another SATA card (or whatever). I've had awful luck with replacing the card and casing in the past.

OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Mar 15, 2014 10:41 AM

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Mar 15, 2014 11:58 AM in response to fletchingyourflight

Extremely likely a dead SATA card, ....very common failure point



As a 'collector' of countless hard drives, a can assure you the notion of a "rugged hard" drive is like the notion of rugged eggshells



always always always have 2 copies minimum of your data off-computer, HD are cheap as dirt....Nobody ever has to be in the position you're currently in.

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