External HD "Beeping"

I have a 120GB external HD I just connected to my power book G4 (USB) The drive light comes on and then it starts beeping and is not recognized as a new device. The drive has documents and pictures, no software. The drive content was recently downloaded from a PC using window XP. Help needed.
Thanks, S. Brown

Hi sbrownbw,
the drive may need more power. If you have an external power supply, then plug it in, otherwise use a Y shaped USB cable adaptor to plug the drive into both USB ports on the PowerBook. The aluminum PowerBooks have USB ports that are notoriously low power, so you need two where one would do on another computer.

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