I don't know... it is so weird! I stepped away from the computer for the night. I thought all activity between gparted and the drive had ceased. In the morning everything was good. It was even reformatted just a few minutes ago. I think I'll run badblock on the device. On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > 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 >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: