The drive has got a nice casing which makes it durable. On the downside, it needs two USB ports... the manual says that you "might" need to connect second port for additional power..
And yes, at least I need the second USB port to be connected.
So yeah... if your drive does not get recognized , make sure you have connected both the USB connectors.
One more trivia : documentation of Iomega eGo drive indicates that the second or power connector will have a symbol on the same. However, there is no such symbol. In fact there is an easier alternative to tell which is the additional "power" port - the thinner cable of the two usb port.
The drive speed is pretty good.. 1 GB from my 7200 rpm laptop HDD in around 1 min..
so the next step after connecting 500 gig drive is to partition it.. I prefer to partition my drive for manageability and it also provides some recovery advantages.
Here is how you can manage (add/delete) partition from you portable drive in Windows XP :
and yeah.. this is totally FREE... no need to buy software to setup partition on your new portable drive.. ! :)
1. Go to Start-> Run. Type "mmc" [ this opens up Microsoft management console ]
2. Click of File -> Add/Remove Snap in
3. Click on Add and Select "Disk Management" and click Add. Click Finish on next screen
4. Close the Snap in popup and go back to main screen [ console ]
5. Click on disk Management. Your new portable drive should be listed.
6. Right click on your drive and click delete partition
NOTE: This will DELETE and REMOVE all the data from the drive you are changing partition. 7. You can see all the drives will space and partition info listed graphically, just below the list.
8. Right click on your drive (graphical section) and click Add partition. Choose the size and quick format option.
9. Repeat it to create other drives until no free/unallocated partition is remaining for the drive..
Thats it... now you are set. Your new portable hard drive is set up with new partitions.
