Gt70 2PC Dominator 895 USB 3.0 Slots not working

Only 1 of my 3.0 USB slots is working with my Toshiba 3.0 External HDD.
The other 2 slots would not work at all with my Toshiba drive. They will only work if I plug my Kingston USB 3.0 Flash drive or any other usb device.
What can I do to fix this?
Specs:
Intel i7 4810
Nvidia  GTX 870m
Windows 8.1

Quote from: Pegasus;104522
This is a power issue, your external HDD want use USB 3 speed because connected to a USB 3 connector, but the power provide by the notebook are not enought for the HDD and then you get the disconnect problem. WIth a USB memory no issue because need less power and on USB 2 it work because speed are lower.
So you need a USB cable between your HDD and the NB that can connect to 2 USB connector and then get more power from the NB or use a USB hub with his own power supply, should work.
So 2 of my USB ports have power issue? Because one of them works fine.
Quote from: hch;104595
You mean those two ports is randomly working some time?
Does the disconnecting problem happen right after you connect the HDD with the notebook? or while you're moving data? (how big is the data?)
Try to use this external HDD to other notebook and change another USB cable for a cross-validation.
Also try to find if there is any driver update for this HDD.
Disconnects when trying to autoplay and while doing anything (even sitting there). Unfortunately I don not have another laptop with usb 3.0 ports. I do however have a desktop and I can say that it works fine there. I check and there are no firmware/driver update for this model.

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