The mystery of the "Phantom Drive", that was there even though it was unplugged, is solved!

The mystery of the "Phantom Drive", that was there even though it was unplugged, is solved!

What happened was that the drive I'm recovering had TWO PARTITIONS. One was a Linux Mint EX4 partition, but the stuff I was recovering was in the Windows partition. I inserted the external drives at the same time as I turned on the Dock, and confused the Linux partition - which showed up as an extra drive anyway - with the external drives. I found a blank drive and assumed it was the external drive. In fact the USB Port on the RecRoom computer probably didn't read any of the external drives. Instead, I probably copied the same stuff to that partition several times. D'OH!

So bloody easy to make assumptions sometimes. When using Windows 7, it NEVER read Linux partitions! Clearly there's something wrong with the USB3 port I installed on the RecRoom PC. I reinstalled the driver but it made no difference. Luckily the Media PC has no problems with this, and I've renamed that partition so that it's clearer what it is. However, I need to plug in and check the other external drives and see if it copied at all, so the show continues...