Re: new external drive

      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.
      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.
      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.  
      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
          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?
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