A friend of mine bought used Dell 1.8 latitude d400, 60 g hard drive, connected a Western Digital 32 gig external hard drive via usb. The Dell sometimes finds the external and he can access the hard drive, most of the time it comes up it had found the usb storage then there's nothing - the external is then not recognized. He just wanted to add more hard drive. What could be going wrong? Does it need to be formatted?
Try connecting to a differnt port if it still does the same thing change the usb cable because what i understand is there is a loose connection somewhere ... or the best thing is contact dell at 18006249896 and ask them that u want to change the internal hdd and they will tell u what maximum the system can support and which is available with them ... its their system and if u buy parts from them they have to support u and make sure they both work
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His answer is: there is no power switch on external hard drive, just usb lead and that's it.
The external hard drive is a passbook it needs no other power other than the usb lead. He has no problems with the external hard drive on his PS3.
He has a Western Digital My Passport Essential 32 GB external hard drive. Which is USB
2.0 powered. The Dell Latitude d400 is plugged into the wall.
Is he using a USB hub or plugging directly into the laptop?
Are there any other USB devices plugged directly into the laptop? How many?
Hmm... does it at least have a plug-in power supply? It would be unusual to run the hard drive from the USB alone... there isn't enough power there, I think.
Is the external drive turned on or off when he plugs it in?
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