Connecting a Western Digital PassportElite

Hello,
I have exhausted all the memory on my hard disk, so I bought a WD Passport Elite external drive. I am trying to connect to my Powerbook but I am unable to. I connected the drive to my Windows based computer without a problem, to ensure that the drive is fine.
Questions I have is why am I unable to connect?
Trying to troubleshoot and how do I determine the following? Is the USB port PCI or the adapter card?(Took the following from the troubleshooting guide for the drive)
"If your system has a USB2.0 PCI adapter card, be sure that its drivers are installed before connecting your WD USB2.0 external storage product. The drive is not recognized correctly unless USB2.0 root hub and host controller drivers are installed. Contact the adapter card manufacturer for installation procedures. "
Thank you in advance.

As you have only just bought the drive it might still be possible for you to exchange it. Some things you need to be aware of...
1.  It is highly unlikely that your G4 will be able to boot via *a USB connection*, which would remove a huge degree of usefulness from it.
2.  *A FireWire connection* will a) almost certainly allow that drive to boot your Mac (but see 3 below), and b) be almost twice as fast as USB.
3.  Western Digital “My Book” drives   !! AVOID !!. (Your drive isn't in that list, but this is a "heads up" for you).

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