Seagate drive quandary: "USB device is drawing too much power"?

I have a year-old Seagate external hard drive that when I plug in to a 2011 MacBook Air, it started saying something to the effect of "your USB device is drawing too much power and had been disable in order to aboud damage..." I had been using this drive for some time, and this just started a few days ago. I tried plugging it into a USB hub and directly into a USB on the MBA with the same result. So I plugged in into my brand new 2012 MacMini and got the same messgae. My initial conclusion: the drive is dead.
So I buy a new USB 3.0 Seagate compact external drive, plug it in and get the same error on my MBA and on the MacMini. If that isn't odd enough, I have the exact same Seagate model plugged into my MacMini as the backup drive with no problems. Any ideas?? Maybe I received a DOA drive by coincidence?
UPDATE: Tried the new drive on a Win7 PC and it recognized it fine. Why would my 2011 MBA and 2012 MacMini not recognize the new drive?

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Bought recently a new macbook pro 13 inch with Retina display with 120 GB flash drive.
Connected a non-apple CD drive to my macbook and after that started receiving this message: "Because a USB device was drawing too much power from your computer, one or more of your USB devices have been disabled."
initially I was receiving this message after I switch on my macbook but now after every 30 seconds this message pops up although I never connected anything to my macbook through its USB ports.
Will highly appreciate for your help on how to get rid of this problem.
Regards
Homayun

Try resetting the SMC
Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.

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