Life like Opossum Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I have a friend of mine whose Seagate 2TB external hard drive will get dropped after being plugged in for a couple days and will not re connect unless he uninstalls the associated USB driver, turns off the hard drive, plugs it back in and powers it up. We have tried several options including changing the power settings to keep all usb ports powered. Can anyone else think of anything that could resolve this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linkstojustice Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) It seems that this is a USB powered drive? From my experience external drives powered by usb are destined to fail. I would reccomend always getting external drives that are powered by their own power supply. You could probably buy a different enclosure that has ac/dc power and just swap the drive into the new enclosure. Edited July 26, 2012 by linkstojustice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJuJube Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 I usually get lower capacity drives for example two 500GB or four 500 GB, usually hate going for Tb since failure rate is higher-maybe just me. I usually convert an internal harddrive into an external ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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