re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive Monday, January 8, 2007 at 7:30 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Problem with port powered drives is that most if not all, pull to much power from the motherboard and that results in a failure or a blown motherboard. This can even happen with some combinations of solid state memory and motherboards. Most, if not all port powered drive enclosures that I have seen, are for the notebook hard drives as they pull less starting and run current. I don't use them so can't say whether they will completely power off or not. I don't know of any portable computers that will handle a port powered HDD but there may be some... On Monday, January 8, 2007 at 4:23 am, Karl Jackson wrote: > >Actually, I did ask Maxtor...but they misunderstood me. They just >repeated one of their FAQs, viz. safely shutting down an external drive, and >that's not what I meant. Oh well; thanks anyway. >Come to think of it, the drive has its own power supply - I wonder if a drive which >gets its power directly from the PC would shut down? > > Written in response to: re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Monday, January 8, 2007 at 4:23 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Sun, Jan 7, 2007, 8:22 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (C K: Sun, Jan 7, 2007, 9:26 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Mon, Jan 8, 2007, 4:23 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (C K: Mon, Jan 8, 2007, 7:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum