Bad drive or enclosure?

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I've got an old 80GB 2.5" drive on a ghetto rigged USB adpater.

Aside from the problems its been giving me in ubuntu during formatting (will only format in fat32 for some odd reason). If I try to copy ANYTHING to it it will just stop at about a quarter way through and give me an I/O error.

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Have you tried hooking up the drive direct and taking the questionable hardware out of the picture? Do that and then see if you can r/w. If you're still getting i/o errors then save off the important data pronto and buy a new disk.
 
Shaggy3zx said:
Have you tried hooking up the drive direct and taking the questionable hardware out of the picture? Do that and then see if you can r/w. If you're still getting i/o errors then save off the important data pronto and buy a new disk.
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I would but, I don't have any adapters nor does my current laptop have an IDE interface.. its SATA.
 
I've run into this issue before. I got a SimpleTech 750 External Drive (it was free to me). When I was trying to copy a boat load of files to it, I would get I/O Errors. I've determined that the drive was just getting to warm and causing the I/O Errors. I copied the files I needed in smaller chunks and shut down the drive between copies. The SimpleTech enclosure doesn't come with a fan and is passively cooled (if even that). I will replace with a better enclosure as soon as I have additional funds.

Short answer, get some cooling on it and see what happens. Might suggest a small fan and get it off the table so get airflow underneath.

 
capreppy said:
I've run into this issue before. I got a SimpleTech 750 External Drive (it was free to me). When I was trying to copy a boat load of files to it, I would get I/O Errors. I've determined that the drive was just getting to warm and causing the I/O Errors. I copied the files I needed in smaller chunks and shut down the drive between copies. The SimpleTech enclosure doesn't come with a fan and is passively cooled (if even that). I will replace with a better enclosure as soon as I have additional funds.

Short answer, get some cooling on it and see what happens. Might suggest a small fan and get it off the table so get airflow underneath.

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Guess I should have mentioned. It's in a 2.5" enclosure. :p

It's not really a big deal though. I don't keep much and what I do keep can usually be transfered on my flash drive.
 
I've had an adapter give similar issues. I'd eliminate the adapter first and see if you can get the same results.
 
Sounds like an adapter issue to me also. The formatting issue you're getting sounds pretty typical to some problems I've had before.
 
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