Johnny Hughes a écrit : > > Normally, unplugging external drives without unmounting them is the > culprit on an external USB device. Also, just powering off the drive > without unmount it if it is an externally powered drive. On internally > mounted drives, usually turning off the system without shutting it down, > loss of a power supply and / or loss of power to a live system. > > Sometimes a bad driver can cause problems for certain devices. > > I would use an ext3 file system as it has a journal ... and journals can > recover data from the journal. > Well, I reformatted the drive (ext2 first) and did a 'badblock -v' on it. Looks like half of the disk is damaged, so it's clearly a hardware failure. The guy at the store told me that with the actual heat it's not a surprise. Anyway: thanks to anybody for the detailed advice! Cheers, Niki Kovacs