Before you yank the drive from the enclosure see about using the manufacturer software to verify the disk. On Nov 24, 2016 6:14 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > I'd say you have a bad unit. Try pulling the drive out of it and > connecting it direct to a sata bus and see if that works to get a response > to the bus. Either the drive, or the usb converter chip could be dead. > > I began to find at one point years ago my chances of buying those cheap > external enclosure "backup drives" meant more than likely they would be > doa, die soon, or otherwise cause me grief (like causing systems not to > post with them connected) indicating some sort of electrical short. More > often than not, usb drives are crap. > > What I have found is vendors sell _garbage_ drives as "usb", most have > signfiicantly lower warranties (6mo-1yr vs 3-5yr) and mtbf rates. This > means you're usually buying the stuff that doesn't otherwise cut muster for > desktop or enterprise use. > > More simply: Expect they will die, and fast. > > What I do here is buy a normal desktop drive with a good warranty, get an > enclosure myself, put it together myself, and run them this way. I rarely > lose a disk, much better quality over all. > -mb > > > On 11/24/2016 12:03 PM, Michael wrote: > > > I got a problem. This new drive won't format. Linux saw it when I first > plugged it in. I then tried copying some files to it which resulted in an > error appearing after 5-10 minutes telling me to open windows and run > 'chkdsk \f' on the device. Then I plugged it into windows10 and couldn't > figure out how to open a terminal so I decided to format it. But it > wouldn't format. When I attempt to it flashes twice a second for a little > then a long flash then again quickly. So I figured I would attempt the > format with Linux but Linux doesn't see the drive now so no formatting with > it. Can someone help? > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >