Connecting a USB2 SATA Disk Drive

[BarryH]

Hi

Well I bought a disk caddy and successfully cloned a new 200GB drive from the existing 100GB drive.

But what threw me initially was that I could only connect the USB drive caddy to the single USB port that's situated on the LH side of the notebook. None of the three USB ports on the RH side would connect.

Has anyone any ideas?

Is it a configuration error on my machine?

Or will this type of device only connect to the one port?

TIA

Best regards

Barry

[DJY]

On the disk caddy I used it required 2 USB connections to power it ( I had no ac adaptor) . The caddy came with a "Y" usb cable. Maybe the left USB has enough power but the right ones are split?

[BarryH]

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DJY wrote:

On the disk caddy I used it required 2 USB connections to power it ( I had no ac adaptor) . The caddy came with a "Y" usb cable. Maybe the left USB has enough power but the right ones are split?

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Yes, this is what I've found, the left hand port can power the disk caddy off the one connection. If I choose to use the RH ports I have to plug the 'power' connector in first, let the drive spin up and then plug in the USB data connector on the adjacent port.

So now after upgrading my internal drive to 200GB I'm left with a handy 100GB SATA USB2 disk caddy!

Best regards

Barry