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Something very funny is going on with my External Hard drive Caddy. I am running Linux Mint 14.

I had a laptop breakdown just before Christmas, removed the drive and placed it into a 2.5" SATA caddy, verified the data was there - no read operations, removed the drive, tried to access it days later to find the ext3 filesystem was totally corrupted. I assumed that was a disk issue.

I recently used the same caddy with an NTFS disk, data was fine, unmounted the disk, checked it days later, disk is entirely unreadable

So just now I checked it with a 3rd, old hard drive. Read the data, all fine, unmounted, reinserted, disk unmountable.

Any ideas what on Earth is going on, and more importantly how I can get the data back? it must still be there

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Are you certain that you are unmounting/ejecting the disk properly before disconnecting it? If the power is suddenly removed from these disks it can cause the issues you are describing. – Will.Beninger Apr 29 at 0:30
I'm definitely unmounting beforehand, but I've run out of disks to test it on, and I'm thinking this caddy is just going in the bin... – Christian Mayne May 7 at 11:32

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