Computer question

[LaRue Medlin]

I had to move 2 external 1tb usb drives from my dell pc over to my laptop. my usb ports gave up on me. So I use these for backups, so not accessed very often. How should I power them up/down? Unplug the usb and then power cable when not in use or just unplug the power?:smack:

 

[EddieS'04]

La Rue, I have a seagate usb extrnal for back up, for my dell laptop. What I do is. Left Click on the usb Icon in the system tray. Then click on the pop up to remove. When it gives me the ok popup. I pull the usb plug. Then I power down the external drive.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Before powering down any attached USB storage device click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the right-hand tray of your Windows PC, then click on the device in question and click "Stop".



Once the operating system says it is safe to remove the storage device THEN power it down.



When re-attaching to another device, or when powering up in general, I like to attach the storage device first THEN power it up. There are those that say you should apply power first to get the disk spinning then attach via USB. I really don't think there is any difference. I like my way because then I can attach the external HDD and just forget about it, and turn it on when needed, and turn it off when no longer needed (after stopping as described above) and not worry about the USB cable attach, detach.



TJR

 

[Don Pertz]

25.00 You can buy a PCI USB adapter with 4 new ports. Install and plug em back in.