USB Drive problems
Hello all, I am having problems with a USB drive. Something got messed up on my other system and Windows 7 will not boot. I took that hard drive out. I am hooking it up to a Prudent Way USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA adapter. I want to get my files off of the drive and then I will decide if I take that system Linux only like I did this one, or try to recover Windows 7 and go dual boot maybe. Let's call this drive Ext-1, since I have a 2 TB external drive I also hook up - to copy files from Ext-1 to, if I can ever get this working. Let's call the 2 TB drive Ext-2
I am new to Linux, although I have been checking out Live Distro's and even set the other computer up to dual boot Mint and Win 7 a few times. I am seeing odd behavior when trying to hook this drive up, and the same thing happens when I put it in an external USB enclosure and try to work with it that way - and it's even slower in the enclosure.
Ext-1 mounts sometimes, partway. It will say it can't mount the drive, but I will see it listed in the Dolphin File Manager as a device. I can click on it and open it that way. Or later on, if I try a couple of times, it will finally allow me to open it with Dolphin.
I can access my files, and I was even able to delete hiber.sys from the drive - I heard that might have been causing my problems for why Win 7 wouldn't boot, so I decided to go ahead and delete it like some posts advised, for when I put it back in the other laptop and try to boot Win 7.
But, I can't seem to get it to copy any files from Ext-1 drive to a directory on this system, or to Ext-2 that I hook up to this laptop. I can browse the files, but copying and such doesn't seem to work.
Every few minutes, no set time, Ext-1 dismounts itself or something. So I have to start all over again with this process. Maybe it is powering down? I don't know. But another odd behavior, after a while if I leave Ext-1 plugged into the USB port, either Mint 'finds' it again and mounts it and I go through the process all over again, or maybe it wakes itself up or whatever and I have to go through the whole mount process all over again.
So, does anyone have any ideas for the best way to mount Ext-1 in a way so that it will - 1. Stay alive and accessible, and 2. I will have access to it in a way that allows me to copy files off of it onto this laptop or to Ext-2?
By the way, / > var > log > kern.log is showing some USB errors and such, some of which seem to maybe be related to this problem, but I don't know anywhere near enough about Linux to even guess at what they mean. If it will help someone with troubleshooting, I can post a link to it in a new reply, if someone can tell me a good place on the Net to post it so that it is accessible - since it appears I do not have permission to post attachments at this time.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
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