External HDD is corrupted

[Agent M]

***SOLVED***

Ok, so today I went to the computer store where I bought both the 2
enclosures and the new Seagate drive.

We used a Sata HDD Docking thingo to test, and voila!!!...it worked
perfectly. I could write to the drive in Ubuntu without losing the
partition, and even format in Ubuntu if I wanted. I showed them what the
enclosures where doing, and so they are going to get some different
model / brand enclosures in on Monday from another store and then we
will test those in store before I take them away.

Downside is I didn't need to buy the Seagate in the first place, as it
wasn't a HDD issue.
Good news is the WD drive I was replacing is probably all OK, and so now
I have 2 x 1TB drives instead of just 1
Also I am very luck that I only 'read from' and did not 'write to' the
500GB drive that I had in the other enclosure, otherwise I probably
would of lost everything on that drive.

Very odd problem, and one of the guys in the store even refused that it
would be the enclosures, until we tested the theory.
But glad it is resolved, or at least will be on Monday when I get my new
enclosures. 

Thank you all for your input, efforts and help. Much appreciated.  
:)



-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: External HDD is corrupted
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:06:57 +0800

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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