Friday, September 11, 2020

Fix external hard drive dropping offline on a Lenovo computer

 I have a Lenovo 8th Gen i3 that i have been having trouble with.  I backup one external drive to another and one of the drives keeps dropping offline.  I have finally found a fix.  It seems like a hardware problem that when more than one drive is connected to the same usb port (like through a usb hub), both can not stay online.  The fix is to simply move the "main" hard drives (that everything syncs to) to another usb port and all of the other external drives are on the hub.  In other words, never have drives running on the hub simultaneously.

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