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<blockquote data-quote="hhayden86" data-source="post: 1726352" data-attributes="member: 381226">Thanks for your reply! I took your advice and bought a new dock to test out the drives.&nbsp; There's still something very funny going on though.&nbsp; I now have each drive separated; one is still in the original enclosure and one is in the new dock.&nbsp; But every time I turn each drive, regardless of which enclosure, I'm presented with a different scenario.&nbsp; I'll turn one on and an entire folder of images will have blank thumbnail icons and won't open (I'm a photographer so am mostly dealing with tifs, cr2 etc. opening in Photoshop) and the next time I turn on the drive all the files will have the proper thumbnail icons and open without issue.&nbsp; Photoshops response to a 'damaged (lost?)' file is: &quot;Photoshop cannot open this file as it is not a TIF file&quot;.&nbsp; The last curveball is that sometimes files with blank thumbnail icons WILL open.&nbsp; Also, sometimes a file will open just fine from the hard drive, but if I try and copy it onto my desktop, it will show up there as a blank icon and not open (which makes the task of backing up files that appear to be in tact particularly volatile/daunting).&nbsp; I'm having real trouble seeing a pattern which makes it tough to isolate the issue.&nbsp; Both drives now mount without issue or delay and no one enclosure seems to be 'outperforming' the other.&nbsp; Both drives still seem equally temperamental regardless of which enclosure they're utilizing.&nbsp; Would it make sense that- if it's as you say and my original enclosure's controller somehow confused my drives- that they'd still be acting this way, even in another enclosure?&nbsp; I just don't understand how the drives can 'lose' entire folders of files and then find them again arbitrarily.&nbsp; Can you see any way to fix this?&nbsp; Is my original enclosure garbage?&nbsp; If I do sort this all out, can I still trust it?&nbsp; If I reformat the drives after successfully backing them up (if possible), can I still trust them?&nbsp; Will a format wipe away whatever confusion is present?&nbsp; Thanks in advance for any and all help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hhayden86, post: 1726352, member: 381226"] Thanks for your reply! I took your advice and bought a new dock to test out the drives. There's still something very funny going on though. I now have each drive separated; one is still in the original enclosure and one is in the new dock. But every time I turn each drive, regardless of which enclosure, I'm presented with a different scenario. I'll turn one on and an entire folder of images will have blank thumbnail icons and won't open (I'm a photographer so am mostly dealing with tifs, cr2 etc. opening in Photoshop) and the next time I turn on the drive all the files will have the proper thumbnail icons and open without issue. Photoshops response to a 'damaged (lost?)' file is: "Photoshop cannot open this file as it is not a TIF file". The last curveball is that sometimes files with blank thumbnail icons WILL open. Also, sometimes a file will open just fine from the hard drive, but if I try and copy it onto my desktop, it will show up there as a blank icon and not open (which makes the task of backing up files that appear to be in tact particularly volatile/daunting). I'm having real trouble seeing a pattern which makes it tough to isolate the issue. Both drives now mount without issue or delay and no one enclosure seems to be 'outperforming' the other. Both drives still seem equally temperamental regardless of which enclosure they're utilizing. Would it make sense that- if it's as you say and my original enclosure's controller somehow confused my drives- that they'd still be acting this way, even in another enclosure? I just don't understand how the drives can 'lose' entire folders of files and then find them again arbitrarily. Can you see any way to fix this? Is my original enclosure garbage? If I do sort this all out, can I still trust it? If I reformat the drives after successfully backing them up (if possible), can I still trust them? Will a format wipe away whatever confusion is present? Thanks in advance for any and all help. [/QUOTE]

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