Have a dell insproin 15 5555. I tryed hooking a xternal hard drive to the USB port and it just quite. All it will do is when y

[cajunmanms]

My dell insporin 15 5555. I hooked a external hard drive to the USB port and it quite. All it will do is when you plug it in the light come on. But goes right out. That's it

 

[USAFRet]

My dell insporin 15 5555. I hooked a external hard drive to the USB port and it quite. All it will do is when you plug it in the light come on. But goes right out. That's it

What type of external drive, exactly?