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  • USB drives suddenly show no data

    From Davey@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 30 18:31:22 2023
    I have two USB drives (of several), both USB-cable-powered, which I use
    to back up daily files.
    Suddenly last night, they mounted ok, but only showed 'lost and found',
    with no files at all, and no file transfer available. I tried
    rebooting both the PC and the drives, but there was no change. They
    are named Expansion_Drive and Expansion_Drive-2, for reference. The
    names did not appear when they were connected, which again is unusual.
    The former of these drives is normally connected all the time, the
    latter only occasionally. This afternoon, I dug out an old laptop, and connected Expansion_Drive to it. And it worked fine. I then
    connected it to my normal PC instead, and it worked fine there as well.
    Any ideas what happened? I am hoping that Expansion_Drive-2 will react similarly.

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    Davey.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 3 08:57:41 2023
    Am 30.07.2023 schrieb Davey <[email protected]d>:

    Suddenly last night, they mounted ok, but only showed 'lost and
    found', with no files at all, and no file transfer available. I tried rebooting both the PC and the drives, but there was no change. They
    are named Expansion_Drive and Expansion_Drive-2, for reference. The
    names did not appear when they were connected, which again is unusual.
    The former of these drives is normally connected all the time, the
    latter only occasionally. This afternoon, I dug out an old laptop, and connected Expansion_Drive to it. And it worked fine. I then
    connected it to my normal PC instead, and it worked fine there as
    well. Any ideas what happened? I am hoping that Expansion_Drive-2
    will react similarly.

    Maybe a problem with USB power?
    Try to only connect that drive to USB and nothing else.

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Thu Aug 3 08:38:05 2023
    On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 08:57:41 +0200
    Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote:

    Am 30.07.2023 schrieb Davey <[email protected]d>:

    Suddenly last night, they mounted ok, but only showed 'lost and
    found', with no files at all, and no file transfer available. I
    tried rebooting both the PC and the drives, but there was no
    change. They are named Expansion_Drive and Expansion_Drive-2, for reference. The names did not appear when they were connected, which
    again is unusual. The former of these drives is normally connected
    all the time, the latter only occasionally. This afternoon, I dug
    out an old laptop, and connected Expansion_Drive to it. And it
    worked fine. I then connected it to my normal PC instead, and it
    worked fine there as well. Any ideas what happened? I am hoping
    that Expansion_Drive-2 will react similarly.

    Maybe a problem with USB power?
    Try to only connect that drive to USB and nothing else.


    Everything is working again. It is as though something in the USB
    system in the HDDs had lost some instruction, or could not handshake
    with the PC, and connecting them to a different PC restored that missing
    flag.
    As to what or how, I have no idea.

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    Davey.

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