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sealingwax
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FreeAgent XTreme Power Failure?

I bought a 1.5tb FA Xtreme drive from a nearby Best Buy here in Las Vegas about 3 months ago. Once or twice in those first two months the drive would not boot up when the system was started. Now 3 months into ownership of the drive it seems to have stopped booting up complete. All connections have been double checked and it is still detectable by Windows Device Manager. Properties of the drive from the device manager come up with the error 'This device cannot start. (Code 10)' Basic methods of disconnecting, restarting, etc. have not provided any posotive result. I read in one forum thread that the FA drives may have a tendency to burn out their powersupply. Could that be the problem I'm facing? looking at near 500gb of data at risk.