External HDD is corrupted

[Norman Silverstone]

On 27/03/14 16:02, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 23:39 +0800, Agent M wrote:
>> This may be a silly question, but could it be possible for the type of
>> enclosures that I have to be the source of such issues? maybe not 100%
>> compatible with linux?? I know this may be a stretch, but at this
>> point am grasping at straws.
>
> Not silly at all - I was wondering exactly the same thing. I've bought
> two of these
>
> http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11400.m1842.l3160/7?euid=fb887907de9b4c18997b7167cd970b68&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.co.uk%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D320955375179%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AL%3AOC%3AGB%3A3160
>
> one for me running Ubuntu the other for a friend running Mint. They both
> work perfectly. Mine gets used with an ext4 formatted drive, hers with
> the XP drive pulled from the laptop before I put in a new one to install
> Mint.

I have something similar and HDDs work, no problem. I used the HDD 
housing out of an old PC as the enclosure.

Norman