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Brand New Verbatim Drive is drawing too much power




By sin0 on Mar 25, 2009

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I just connected a 1tb Verbatim Drive to my Mac to download Quicktime files for FCP and all I got for my troubles was a frozen screen with the dialogue box "USB Device drawing too much power". It draws power from the mains ok, but as soon as I connect it to my Mac with the USB cable, I get the same alert. I tried a brand new USB cable and got the same alert. Do I need a disk? Do I need to holler at the damn Producer who gave me the piece of ****?
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Mar 25, 2009

- I am a film editor and work on Macs using Final Cut Pro so unfortunately don't have access to a PC.
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have yoyu tried it on a pc?
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Mar 25, 2009

- okay, so you havent used it yet?

plug it then go to the disk utility. which is in "application, utility folder, disk utility"

do you see it in there in the left corder besides your normal drives.

Mar 25, 2009

- also makesure you are using the apple mac power adaptor too not just on the battery

Mar 25, 2009

- and dont connect the usb to the keyboard. connect it to the main usb at the rear or side of the computer. dont connect it to an extention cable either.
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