Removable storage device Master File Table wiped whenever I connect it

[Singtoh]

Whenever I connect my external harddrive to my laptop Precise 12.04 64bit it seems to recognize it very slowly. I then access the drive do what I have to and safely remove. I then plug the same drive back in, Precise does not mount it and when I go to palmipst(drive utility) the drive is there in the left side menu but it says "unknown" and the MFT is completley wiped from the drive. I then try to format it again and it gives me this error: "Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: cannot mount /dev/sdc1 at /var/run/udisks/job-mkfs-YNuk7p: Invalid argument"

Filesystem label=Music1
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
7331840 inodes, 29304832 blocks
1465241 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
895 block groups

(I forgot to mention, when I plug the drive in I do a check file system thru the Drive Utility and it states the filesystem is "Not Clean") then my MFT dissapeers.

This happens with any file system I try except when I try FAT, it just fails to format it without throwing up an error. I thought it was the enclosure the drive was in so I purchased a new one and it does the same thing. To be more clear, I have two external drives with the same exact enclosures one 500gig and the other is 120gig. The 500gig has no issues when plugged in, the 120gig tries to format and access the drive(I can see this by the flashing light on the enclosure) but fails with the above error.

I then boot into a live cd of Precise 12.04 and the exact same thing occurs with the same errors. After leaving the live cd Precise I boot into sysrescuecd and go to gparted, it of course complains that there is errors on the drive and no MFT. I create the MFT again, then format it with any file system and all is just fine with this drive. After this its back to my normal system Precise 12.04, plug the drive in and instantly the MFT dissapears again. So to further check into this I made a live cd of the Maverick 10.10 64bit, booted into it and go to gparted, of course it complains there are errors and no MFT, create the MFT, format the drive and all is fine, file system check says "File system is Clean", I can copy music or whatever from my main Precise 12.04 /home 1Terabyte drive to this drive and it works just fine. I also plug the 500gig external + another 500gig external powered drive in at the same time with the 120gig and I can transfer music and whatnot between all drives with no issues whatsoever. All of this is being done from the live cd Maverick 10.10. After transferring 50 or so gigs of music to the drive working from the live cd I do a filesystem check and it says "Filesystem is Clean", I boot back to the main system, plug the drive in and the same scenerio occurs, "sees the drive", "filesystem Not Clean" "MFT dissapeers" "try to format it and the above error is thrown up"

I am not an expert in Linux and the above error means nothing to me. Please tell me I can fix this somehow. I personally think this is a serious problem. I had tried to use this drive as a backup drive for some of my music and in fact had it full of backed up music, then this issue happened and wiped the MFT and all the data, even Testdisk sees the drive as having nothing on it. Luckily this was a backup and I didn't lose any of my precious music but it could have been a serious loss of data. I think this probably started after an update of some sort but I can't be certain.

Please let me know in non-expert terms if I can help further with this issue, or in fact if I am missing something obvious here.

Thank you and sorry for the long report, but its the only way I could explain it all.

Cheers,

Singtoh

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: udev 175-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 22 12:22:59 2012
GvfsMonitorLog: Monitoring events. Press Ctrl+C to quit.
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdc /dev/sdc1
HotplugNewMounts:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MachineType: LENOVO 7663A22
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic root=UUID=57b07e0e-f67a-4a7a-992e-8c92f39f419b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: udev
Symptom: storage
Title: Removable storage device not detected as block device
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/18/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC9WW (2.29 )
dmi.board.name: 7663A22
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETC9WW(2.29):bd03/18/2011:svnLENOVO:pn7663A22:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn7663A22:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7663A22
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO