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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday December 05 2020, @08:34PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday December 05 2020, @08:34PM (#1084412)

    My intent was to locate and then copy a file from the USB drive to my internal drive.

    Perfect plan.

    I installed the backup into another laptop (DELL ...

    That's where I thought you were saying you put a "cloned" drive into another laptop. I understand now. :)

    So with drive connected external USB, Windows tried to boot, and somehow corrupted the drive? I can see where Windows would have tried to rebuild its kernel, but shouldn't have corrupted any filesystem structure.

    Have you run simple "chkdsk" and/or other disk check tools, including scanning for bad sectors?

    I have spinning rust drives failing left and right. I hate them. Esp. Seagate.

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