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Testdisk works perfectly in this situation!

Disk : Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive (Model SRD00F2)
Task : Extract disk from USB adapter card, and mount using intrinsic SATA ports.
Problem : Windows 10 reports:
Warning
The partition(s) on this hard disk created with 4 K physical sector size ...

Thank you so much for this, and for everything you do. I'll need to get the go-ahead from my hesitant friend, but I'm greatly reassured. Much appreciated - and I will certainly post the outcome.

I'm not an expert here, but I know something about computers - though not Macs. (Read on at your peril...).

From what you've said, I think you'll be quite lucky to recover these files, though Photorec can sometimes snatch files out of oblivion. What makes it difficult is this: The Drake software ...

A friend has asked me for help with a Seagate USB drive (Model SRD00F2) which failed after water damage.

I've extracted the internal 3½ inch (5TB) disk, and Hard Disk Sentinel gives it 100% perfect SMART scores when mounted via its SATA connectors. But Windows 10 reports:
The partition(s) on this ...