We just bought new Seagate FreeAgent Go external drives for my computer & my husband’s. I can hook them both up to my computer & they run fine. My computer found new hardware & I can now look at the files on the drives. When I hook them up to my husband’s computer they just blink & nothing happens. There is no new hardware found & I can’t access the drives. I tried installing an extra USB hub on the front of his computer that is hooked to a PCI card on his motherboard, but this made no difference. He still has the same issue. I know that these drives need plenty of power. His motherboard is an ASUS A8N-SLI & he has an Antec case with an Antec Truepower 550W power supply. We’re both running Windows XP. We can hook up other USB powered peripherals such as a mouse & flash drive & they work. The USB 2.0 is enabled in the bios for the motherboard. Does anybody have any ideas why this drive won’t work on this computer?
