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  • Plausible/possible fault: Power feed too weak (for USB) or broken (external feed), alternatively a broken USB-hub (or IT's power feed) if you have one.
    – Hannu
    Commented Oct 31, 2014 at 19:23
  • Unfortunately that is not the case. I was afraid of that so I replaced the USB data cable and the hard disk is fed with an outside power source (connected to the plug).
    – George
    Commented Oct 31, 2014 at 19:32
  • Check and update driver if possible, if specific driver for the brand and no updates available, try to find a general one or vice versa.
    – Hannu
    Commented Oct 31, 2014 at 19:34
  • Unable to determine the file system type looks like a driver or partitioning problem as I re-read.
    – Hannu
    Commented Oct 31, 2014 at 19:36
  • Chkdsk checks the file system only. It detects bad sectors because files are located there and are incomplete per the checksum of the file system, but It cannot detect, hardware failures that don't cause file ststem errors
    – Ramhound
    Commented Oct 31, 2014 at 19:40