Naturally Office Depot won't take the External Hard Drive back, citing their 14 day policy (which I was told was 30 at the time). Guess I have a lemon that I need to try to now return to the manufacturer (Seagate)? Does the CMOS battery still need to be replaced?
Randall On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Now I'm really confused - why would the external HD's power supply not be > >supplying its power?? What, pray tell, does all this mean as far as the > low > >power messages? > > I think you have demonstrated that your drive's power supply is kaput. So > the drive has to pull all its power over the USB. > > The drive needs more power at start up to get the drive up to speed. That > is why you only get the low power message when the drive is spinning up > and you have other devices also pulling power over USB. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
