External Hard Drive Automatically Powers off Issue

[Nikola_Dekovski]

@Framework_user

I connect it via USB-A

I assume it is a USB 3 connection? You might wanna keep an eye on these discussions, as the issue you are describing is kind of similar. Also it is concerning that this only happens under windows, as we had ruled out that to be the problem with our particular issue:

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