I have this really weird problem. The brief version is that copying files from Linux to a Windows drive is "corrupting" the drive and I can't even see the BIOS screen on startup, it just hangs there. I need to connect the drive through a USB enclosure and wipe out the partition to be able to boot again.
The long version: I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 on one disk, and Windows 7 on the other. Last week, I made a backup of my Windows files to a 3TB USB 3.0 drive on ext4. I copied all the files while running Kubuntu. Then, I formated my Windows 7 drive and re-installed Windows 7. It rebooted a few times, everything was fine. Then, I rebooted to Kubuntu, and restored about 70GB of data from the 3TB USB 3.0 enclosure to my Windows partition. Once done, I rebooted and my system was hanging even before the BIOS could show up anything. I thought my drive had died on me. I ordered a new one. I got it today. It did it again. I installed Windows 7. Then I rebooted to Kubuntu, I then restored all my backup files, then my system hanged before the BIOS displayed anything. I tried unplugging drives, plugging other drives, changing cables, nothing would work. I tried plugging the drive through SATA after it had boot up, nothing. It's like the drive is dead. Then I had the idea to try it with a USB 2.0 enclosure, I could see the drive, and the data on it. I wiped the partitions, rebooted, and it's working again. Any idea of what's happening here? I've copied files from Linux to Windows without problems before, but I recently updated to Kubuntu 14.04. I'm wondering if there's a corruption problem there... or maybe it's the USB 3.0 driver on Linux... Or maybe the cheap enclosure. I'm going to re-install Windows 7 again, but I can't restore my backup files by doing a simple copy command under Linux. I'm worried that if I copy the files from the enclosure to my Linux drive first, it'll just corrupt my Linux drive as well. I'll probably hook up the USB enclosure to a notebook and copy through SSH and hope this bypasses whatever problem is "killing" my drive. It may also be worth mentioning that the files don't seem corrupted when I access them on the drive, I've been watching a few series or movies just fine from it. Has anyone has encountered something like this? -- Ravnox _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://bureau.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
