I have a Dell xps gen 2 I have the 60 gig 7200 hd built in and about 4 usb 2 seagate hds. My problem lies with my external drives only. Im having isssues with these drives crapping out on me. When i click a folder within lets say my 300 gig Ext Seagate or my 300 gig Maxtor' quite often they just hang' and when i do a ctrl alt delte it says drive g not responding. I have to close it down and re click the folder. This is becoming a daily issue. Can anyone think what might be causing this.? I have 1 gig of mem and the XPSGEN 2 has the centrino 2.1 gtz built in' so its a very fast machine.
Sounds like the external HDD's are not getting enough power. Do they have their own power supply? Or are they running of the USB ports?
