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External Hard Drive

07/27/2009 7:28 AM

I have a older IBM Think pad laptop trying to hook up a 250GB externalhard drive to the USB port. Mesage comes up not enough power to run device. Is there any thing i can do. Thanks for the help.
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Re: External Hard Drive

07/27/2009 8:44 AM

You'll need an external power supply to go with your external hard drive.
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Re: External Hard Drive

07/27/2009 8:54 AM

Thank you.
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Re: External Hard Drive

07/27/2009 4:15 PM

Most of the newer external USB-powered hard drives I have seen have a twin USB cable and are designed to be powered off two parallel-connected USB ports in the computer, thus giving your peripheral (hard drive) more available power.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Connecting_a_double_usb_cable_to_a_laptop

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Re: External Hard Drive

03/16/2010 5:14 AM
  1. Iomega comes up with the twin USB cable external hard drives, which are designed to be powered off two parallel-connected USB ports. This is working really fine.
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