External HDD is corrupted

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 07:44 +0800, Agent M wrote:
> Australia. Will see if I can get something locally, so I can at least
> rule the enclosures out.

USB enclosures can and do "go bad". I use a lot of these things, and
have had no less than three fail. They fail in interesting and confusing
ways.

First thing I do when a drive in an enclosure fails is to put the drive
in a different enclosure and see if the problem goes away.

Regards, K.


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