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I don't think it was just a one time bad connection. The drive was unmountable on a variety of win computers, and you couldn't even see it to try and assign a drive letter to force a mount. I was surprised when I plugged it into my linux box and it mounted the first time. At the time, I was an idiot ...

I had removed the disk from the enclosure, and on a whim plugged it in via the USB again. It mounted properly, so I copied all the files off the disk. I would have to remove the USB card from the drive and I assumed it had a SATA port, but I never got that far. So for this disk, it will be taken out ...

I am trying to recover files from an external HD that is connected via USB on a Linux system. When I plug the drive in, I can feel the drive spin up. I run dmesg and I can see that the system recognizes that a drive was plugged in, but only goes through a couple of lines.

Here is what happens with ...