> Is it possible the new drive is using more power for some reason and 
> therefore the PSU can't keep up? Perhaps when you reboot if you 
> unplugged your linux drive (or the external one) it would boot the 
> single drive.

I don't think that would be the case. The old drive is a WD Raptor.
It's working once more after I did the USB enclosure and wiping
partition trick. The new drive is a Crucial SSD. A SSD should draw even
less power than a regular drive as far as I know?

> All conjecture.
> 
> After you write files to the windows drive you could unmount it then 
> remount it to check for file consistency. If anything was the culprit
> on linux it would seem to have to be the NTFS driver (assuming this
> is an NTFS drive), but that seems pretty unlikely since it is widely
> used now.

Is there a tool on Linux to check for NTFS corruption? I was looking a
little into that yesterday, and I've seen ways to ask for the drive to
be checked by Windows upon restart, but that wouldn't help as my
computer wouldn't accept the drive any more.

I'm going to format the WD Raptor with NTFS, and try various file copy
operations on it until I can recreate this problem again. I finished my
fresh install of Windows 7 on the new drive and it's working perfectly
fine, so I don't want to screw that up.

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Ravnox
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