will external hd blow up laptop?

magoogy

bit odd but im worrying - i have just bought;

ACER AS5735-644G25



A great all round laptop, it features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor for doing multiple tasks and a comprehensive specification to give you the performance to handle all of your day to day needs.

and also got;

WESTERN DIGITAL DD3 5 640 EL UK

Plug in and play with the Western Digital DD3 5 640gb External Hard Drive. Featuring 640GB of storage space its ideal for storing music, movies and games and with its easy to use USB connection, it is compatible with Windows XP and Vista.


now im sat here worrying that it might blow it up? will the external make the laptop go funny or blow it up? im new to externals so its a bit scary......

will check answers tomorrow before i even think of using it....

thanks so much...

Marty_J

No need to worry, it's not going to blow anything up.

jatos

Nah, very unlikely.

Only things I know blow up a computer:

Litterally exploding laptops due to dodgy batteries (odd report of Dells doing this, see http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1042700/dell-laptop-explodes-japanese-conference), oh and I once lost my computer due a capacitor blown in the powerpack, I was not happy because it destroyed virtually everything in the computer bar my LG cd-rw, which I suspect could survive an atom bomb!

I will tempt fate, and say, that I never heard of any dangerous incidents involving Toshiba laptops, and generally found these to be far the most reliabe make, and i've had a fair few and typing on one now.

Taffybiker

As above. The only thing I can think of that may cause a problem is if the external drive is powered by the USB - it may ask for more power than the laptop can provide. OTOH, if it has its own power supply I really can see no problem.

Just clicked your link. Own supply - no problem!

magoogy

thanks so much guys - was fretting all night lol xxx you really are wonderful on this site xx

spud17

The only thing I can think of that may cause a problem is if the external drive is powered by the USB

Agree, but it does say it is 3.5 inch drive, and I've not come across one that's usb powered.

Taffybiker

spud17 wrote: »

Agree, but it does say it is 3.5 inch drive, and I've not come across one that's usb powered.

Quite right. I should have spotted that.:o

Leopard

jatos wrote: »

Nah, very unlikely.

Only things I know blow up a computer:

Litterally exploding laptops due to dodgy batteries (odd report of Dells doing this, see http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1042700/dell-laptop-explodes-japanese-conference), oh and I once lost my computer due a capacitor blown in the powerpack, I was not happy because it destroyed virtually everything in the computer bar my LG cd-rw, which I suspect could survive an atom bomb!

I will tempt fate, and say, that I never heard of any dangerous incidents involving Toshiba laptops, and generally found these to be far the most reliabe make, and i've had a fair few and typing on one now.

One mistake that a novice could well make - and which would indeed cause serious damage - would be to connect a powered external drive to a computer by both USB and Firewire at the same time... :eek: