External HDD is corrupted

Agent M agent_m at advantagepc.com.au
Fri Mar 28 10:06:57 UTC 2014


compdoc,

I only have 2 cables that will work, they are both exactly the same, and
both work on windows fine, so at this stage I'm assuming its not the
cables, but I take your point, and if it turns out not to be the
enclosures then that is something else to check.

Karl,

I have tried 2 USB enclosures and they are both new and exactly the
same. So I don't think that its cause they are faulty, but possibly not
100% compatible with Ubuntu, or at least I need to rule them out.


Dave,

Both the WD and Seagate are 3.5" Drives.
Although I do have 2 x USB 3.0 ports on the Laptop, the enclosures have
a separate power supply that plugs into the mains.



I will have to go back to the computer store tomorrow where I got the
drive and enclosures, and see if they have something else I can borrow
or buy to test the drive/s with. At this point I'm really hoping it is
the enclosures, because at least that is an easy fix.




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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