usb hard drives and file recover

[Tom Sparks]

i have a usb hard drive i have formated it to ext3
ever once in a while my hard drive fails to mount with the message bus timed out error
believing it needs to have a fsck check, i start a fsck check on the drive, after 24 hours, and no updates on screen.
i unplug the drive and run fsck on my desktop
I get error after error on the desktop
so what am i doing wrong?

and how do i recover lost files?

tom_a_sparks

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
but instead use OpenDocument File Formats or 
use OpenOffice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html


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