What is a good reliable brand of external hard drive for a laptop?

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I bought a laptop about a year ago and I have been thinking of purchasing an external hard drive to start back up my laptop on to, in case something happens to it. I am not familiar with any of the brands, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer
The best brand is Iomega eGo 250 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 34646 (Ruby Red)
Its specifics are

Stylish colors - Available in Ruby Red, Midnight Blue and Silver
Rugged - Perfect for travel environments, the Drop Guard feature protects the drive when dropped up to 51"
Secure - Receive a full suite of protection solutions when you purchase USB 2.0 eGo Hard Drives!
Iomega now includes McAfee VirusScan Plus, Iomega QuikProtect, EMC Retrospect Express,
3 Year Warranty - with product registration

I found it at great price here:
http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-Portable-External-Drive-34646/dp/B0029D8DGO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286532476&sr=8-1=&tag=tawkisd-20

My laptop computer does not seem to recognise my external hard drive. What should I do?

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I connected my external hard drive to my laptop computer, but the laptop does not seem to recognise it. But when I connect it to another computer, it is recognised. I believe the problem is with my laptop computer. What should I do?

Answer
If the USB where you are plugging the external drive is working with other devices such as mouse, webcam etc then it could be a problem either in the drive enclosure or a driver (if OS is Windows 9x/Me) or kinda like a restriction on the mass storage drivers (you need a registry hack and file ownership on this problem - common in corporate environment).

Some drive enclosure requires two usb ports to work properly so check that out too.

HTH

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