MacBook Air :: USB Port Enough To Power External Drive?

Feb 16, 2009

I was wondering if the since the MBA's USB port has extra power running through it, if it is able to power a USB drive without a AC adapter.

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MacBook Air :: Low Power USB Port - Not Sufficient For LaCie 250GB Drive

Nov 2, 2008

The USB port of the MacBook Air has very low power and it is not being able to power my LaCie 250GB drive without having the hard drive connected to its independent power source. i am having to plug in not only my computer to external power, but i also have to connect the drive to an independet power source. can someone recommend a drive that works on with the MacBook Air that can work without independent power?

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MacBook Pro :: USB Port, Drawing Too Much Power - A USB Devise Is Currently Drawing Too Much Power And The Port Will Be Deactivated

Oct 2, 2006

This is my first post on the forums, although I'm planning on looking around in here once in a while, to see what people are posting.

For starters, I just wanted to tell you about this little problem I've been having with my MacBook 1,83GHz.

Sitting at my desk at work one morning, peacefully drinking my coffee, I suddenly received a rather discomforting error-message from my shiny new (about 1 month old) MacBook;

"A USB devise is currently drawing too much power and the port will be deactivated.".

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MacBook Pro :: Can't Use Front USB Port For External Hard Drive

Jun 1, 2012

I have had some problems for about the past year with the front USB port on my 2009 13in Macbook Pro 5.5.

As you know, there are 2 USB ports on the left side on a 13inch Macbook pro.  The one closest to me (the front one) works fine when I use it with a flash drive.  But when I connect my external 7200RPM external drive to it, after about a minute, it ejects then re-recognizes the disk. 

I video edit with FCP and use the external as one of my scratch disks. 

At first I thought maybe it was the cord or the drive that was messed up.  But then I connected my other external drive to this port and the same thing happened. But when I connected it to the back USB port, everything works fine. I haven't had any trouble.  So i make sure it's connected to that port when using the external.

Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Final Cut Studio 3

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MacBook Pro :: Make External Hard Drive Hook Up To Thunderbolt Port

Sep 2, 2014

So I have 2 USB Ports on my Mac. I use both of them and I am looking to get a Mic for recording youtube stuff. I use one for my wireless mouse, and I use the other for an external hard drive because the amout of space on my Mac is no-where near enough for what I am going to use up. 

I am just wondering if there is a way I can either:

1. Get more USB ports (if its possible)

2. Hook up my mouse to a Thunderbolt port (again if that is possible)

or 3. Hook up my External Hard-Drive to the thunderbolt port. 

Info:
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), I have 2 USB (3.0), 2 Thunderbolt

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OS X :: Can't Recognize External Hard Drive On 10.4.11 Power PC G4, OK On MacBook?

Mar 1, 2010

I have a PowerPC G4 running OSX 10.4.11 that contains a lot of media files. I want to transfer them to my external hard drive (1 tb) so that I can use them on my newer MacBook. I was unable to partition or erase anything on the external hard drive from the PowerPC, because I kept getting an input/output error. I followed the same process and was successful at establishing partitions on my MacBook. Now, I plugged my external into the PowerPC to copy the media files, but it isn't recognizing the partitions on the external harddrive! What did I do wrong?

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ITunes For Mac :: External Hard Drive Not Recognized Automatically Plugged In Via USB Port

Sep 8, 2014

So I plug my external hard drive into my IMac via a usb port, the drive turns on but the drive never appears on my desktop. How do I access my external hard drive when it is not recognized automatically?

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iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

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Intel Mac :: Use Firewire 800 Port To Connect To External Hard-drive Using A USB Micro-B Input?

Jun 9, 2012

I have a late 2009 iMac with Firewire 800 input on the back.  I have a Western Digital Passport external hard drive with USB Micro-B input that I would like to connect to the Firewire (4 USB inputs aren't nearly enough on the iMac). I can't find an adapter to do this. As an alternative, is there an adapter that will convert the Firewire 800 to standard USB2.0?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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MacBook :: Partitions Of External Hard Drive - Carbon Copy Cloner For Power Based Mac

Mar 3, 2009

I want to partition my external hard drive for my g4 power based mac running Leopard.I will have one partition for Time Machine and the other for Carbon Copy Cloner.Here are my questions:1. Which partition scheme should I choose for Time machine?2. Does Carbon Copy Cloner work the same way for non-intel macs as it does for intel? Do I need to click on the OS 9 check box to make my version of CCC bootable (I want a bootable clone)? Which partition scheme should I choose for Time machine?

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MacBook Pro :: Can Power Port Be Replaced

Apr 17, 2012

Mac book pro slipped off bed and broke power plug but also broke power port. Can power port be replaced?

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MacBook Pro :: Does Not Power Up After Plug In Phone To USB Port

Sep 2, 2014

Macbook pro does not  power up after plugging in phone into USB Port

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MacBook Pro

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Power Mac G5 :: External Hard Drive Not Recognized

Oct 9, 2007

I am a photographer. I use 4 X 1TB LaCie external hard drives to store my digital images. 2 as masters for different business segments and 2 as their back-ups. They are daisy-chained using Firewire 800. Recently my G5 has stopped recognizing one of the drives. Is there any way to get my machine to re-recognize the missing drive? I have rewired the four drives to see if there was a problem with the cabling, but this does not appear to be the case. I am coming up to the 1 year warranty period on this drive and need to get it back to LaCie if there is no other solution.

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Hardware :: External Drive Died - Won't Power Up

Jun 14, 2009

My Acomdata twin drive 2TB died today. It won't power up. I think the drives are okay, but not for sure because it won't power up. I have all my ripped movies on it! What can I do? I was thinking maybe I can buy another one (same model) and plug those two drives in the new one.

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Intel Mac :: External WD Drive From Power G5 Won't Mount On New?

May 17, 2012

I just purchased a new iMac, System 10.7.4.  When I tried plugging in my old WD external with a newly purchased Firewire cable (couldn't attach with the cable that came with the drive originally), the drive didn't show up on my desktop. I tried shutting down and restarting, thinking that would help, but it did not.  I then removed it and placed it back on my G5 Tower and it works fine.  I am running system 10.5.8 on my old mac, just as an FYI. I need this drive as my time machine backup is on it.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), WD External Drive

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MacBook Air :: Power Outlet And Port Hatch On The Same Side In MBA?

Nov 3, 2009

256GB SSD-option?- 2.3Ghz (or whaterever it is these days) CPU?- 4GB RAM?- SD-card slot?- Power outlet and port hatch on the _same_ side?I think the last one is especially important on a machine that talks style just as much as essence. It is stupid to hook it up to an external monitor and having cables on both sides. Unclean.The SD-card slot is nice, because it is so much faster than a USB-solution (that be cable, or even the cheap Express-cards found on MBP 17").

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Power Mac G5 :: Recommendations Of External FW800 Hard Drive

Dec 7, 2007

Could anyone recommend an external (FireWire 800) Hard Drive that they're using without issues with a Power Mac G5 (mine is a Dual Processor 2.3)?? I bought a couple of WD My Book Studio Edition but have no end of problems on FW800, and looking around here so is everyone else. LaCies seem to have similar problems, plus my own experiences in selling these and seeing FW ports falling off the enclosure's board, etc., puts me off them. Maxtors seem to have different issues and the new brown and orange Seagates are too fugly to even consider. So, anyone recommend a solution (250-500GB) that works fine with FW800 on a dual PMG5??

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MacBook Air :: MagSafe Power & Display Port Not On Same Side - Fail

Oct 20, 2010

Failed to fix the cables attached to both sides of the Air problem when connecting to a cinema display. Was this really a difficult fix??

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MacBook Pro :: Power Down Machine When Plug In Mini Display Port?

Jul 4, 2009

When using the mini display port, do you need to power down the machine to plug it in and un plug it? I assume unplugging it on the fly doesn't mess things up oer the long term. Sorry kind f use to doing things on a windows where sometimes you have shut down the machine to do things.

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Power Mac G5 :: External Hard Drive Fails To Show On Desktop?

Dec 19, 2007

My Maxtor 500 external hard drive has suddenly stopped appearing on my desktop. My other external drives appear. I've tried hooking the drive to my MacBook Pro with the same results. The drive however, seems 'active'. The light on the front of the drive does its usual flashing routine when plugged into a new machine. I've never had a crashed drive before. Does it sound like this is what has happened, or does anyone have a clue as to what I should do?

Information:
G5
Mac OS X (10.5.1)
MacBook Pro

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: External Hard Drive Is No Longer Supported Because Of Power-PC App?

May 2, 2012

I am trying to back-up my computer to my external hard drive and a box is popping up saying "You can't open the application WD Backup.app because PowerPC applications are no longer supported."  What does this mean? I have updated my system to Lion since my last back-up. What do I need to do?

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Mac OS X (10.5.6)

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Power Mac G5 :: LaCie External Drive - Slow Data Transfer Rate

Nov 5, 2007

I have used the disk for a number of years - all appeared to work fine - I am now backing up my data and only get Very slow transfer speed using firewire 800 - 2 hrs to transfer 1.36 Gb. Disk is connected to a Dual 1.8 Ghz Power PC G5 with firewire 800 - another d2 disk is connected to it with firewire 400 and I have just connected a Maxtor disk using firewire 400 to that. I have tried Updated the firmware (it did require it), tested the device alone on both 800 and 400 connections both slow. Restarted everything and used disk repair to check and repair the disks - repaired permissions on the startup disk.

Connected all the devices together again | LaCie 800 - LaCie 400 - and Maxtor 400. It sends data to all the other devices fast (~ 3 min for 1.6 Gb) through the LaCie 800 disk connection!, but does not send data to the LaCie 800 fast at all. Tested the other devices alone as well - they are all fast. Have also performed a TechTool Pro Ver 4 test on the the disk (Disk type ST325082 3A 232.89 Gb LaCie d2 External LUN0 revision 3.03) Passed the surface scan, disk controller and read write tests. Is the disk failing?

Information:
G5 Tower
Mac OS X (10.4.10)

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Hardware :: 2.5" USB External Hard Drive - Which Enclosure Used As Power Supply?

Sep 7, 2009

I'm looking at buying a 500gb external hard drive, and the actual drive itself can only be Western Digital (I won't touch any others, not even Seagate).I can get a 500gb Western Digital Passport for $119.99 CAD in black with the enclosure of course: click hereMy other option is to buy the drive separately, the Western Digital Scorpio 500gb for $99.99 CAD: click here and a cool case of my liking off eBay for about $13 CAD: click hereNow, my question is this; does it matter which case I use in order to make sure the drive is able to be powered with only 1 USB port? I've heard some notebooks dont give enough juice to certain usb ports and would require a y-splitter to use two usb cables in order to power it (im guessing netbooks would probably suffer from this). I remember trying to use a 2.5" lacie external with the orange rubber padding around it, connected it to the front port of a Powermac G5 1.8ghz and it wouldnt mount, unless it was connected to one of the usb ports on the back of the machine.

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Applications :: ITunes Music Folder - External Drive Needs Power Source

Nov 11, 2009

I'm in the process of moving my iTunes folder to an external hard drive due to my computers hard drive being full. Now the external hard drive I'm using needs to be plugged in to a power source, now if I transfer all my music/movies to the external drive and also have my iTunes automatically download everything to the drive will I be able to copy my movie files back into my computers hard drive when I wan to be able to watch them on plane trips or would I be better off using a external hard drive that doesn't need a power source so I can just take it with me?

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MacBook Pro :: USB Port Gone After Ejecting External HDD?

Mar 9, 2012

All software uptodate. I have strange issue with USB ports. After ejecting USB drive (external HDD, powered by USB bus), which worked perfectly, USB port does not recognize anything, nor providing power. Turning MBP off and then booting back solves this issue.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), MBP 15" 2011

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Power Mac :: Back Up Hard Drive To An External Hard Drive?

Apr 12, 2012

I need to back up hard drive to an external hard drive. How can I do this automactically? 

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10.4.11
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Mac OS X (10.4.11)

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MacBook Pro :: Tv With Usb Port Can Read The External HD Formatted?

Nov 22, 2010

i want to ask if the tv with usb port can read the external HD formatted by mac (hfs/hfs+) in playing movies?

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OS X :: USB Port Has Power But No Data - How To Fix It

May 8, 2009

I have just found that the last USB port on my iMac isn't working, it has power as I can charge my iPhone off it, but it has no data as it dosn't see any device plugged in.

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Power Mac :: Header Port On G5 Ppc

Feb 28, 2012

Where can I find the header port in my g5 ppc dp desktop. Have bought a card reader and it has to be hooked into the "header port"

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Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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MacBook Pro :: External USB Time Machine Works Only On One USB Port

Dec 11, 2014

I know it sounds strange, but my Time Machine HDD works only on one USB Port. 

The facts:

I Have an encrypted Time Machine Backup on an External USB 2.0 HDD.

My MBP 13 inch 8,1 (Early 2011) runs the latest OS X Yosemite Version (10.10.1).

Any other external Drive (Flash drives or HDDs) do work on both USB Ports perfectly.

If i plug in my Time Machine HDD in the left port everything works fine.

If i plug in my Time Machine HDD in the right port it isn't even listed as an unmounted device in Disc Utility.

I connect the USB port directly from the HDD to my MBP (without USB hubs or anything else in between).

I am not sure but i believe that both USB Ports are internally connected to one USB Port, so i know its a strange issue i am having here. 

Info:
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

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Power Mac G5 :: Ethernet Port Connected To BT Home Hub?

Nov 29, 2007

I have a G5 DP 2.0 and have been using it's built in ethernet port connected straight to my BT home hub (adsl/router) for years. Any way I add into the mix a netgear 1000Base layer 2 switch and the G5's ethernet doesn't work, reconnect straight to the router and all is fine. Now tested with new cables and tested on every port on the switch. By the way the port light on the switch don't light up when G5 attached. Now have tried the switch with a g4 and all is fine on every port and supprisingly I've stuck a PCI card in the G5 and that works as well. Just can't work out why the built in won't work through the switch but will direct.

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G5 + PB G4 + G4
Mac OS X (10.4.10)

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