Thank you so much for pointing this out: it was all due to some kind of incompatibility of the HDD reader indeed! As soon as I reconnected the HDD to an inner SATA port it was inmediately recognized.
For the record, here goes the HDD reader info, which had no problem reading other SATA devices but ...
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- 06 Nov 2022, 14:29
- Forum: Filesystem repair
- Topic: Recovering an EXT4 filesystem within a 1 TB HDD detected as 7 TB!!
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- 05 Nov 2022, 22:14
- Forum: Filesystem repair
- Topic: Recovering an EXT4 filesystem within a 1 TB HDD detected as 7 TB!!
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Recovering an EXT4 filesystem within a 1 TB HDD detected as 7 TB!!
Hi,
I own a 1 TB, data-only, internal HDD which I replaced for a 2 TB unit. When I plugged the old HDD into an USB HDD reader in order to transfer the data back to the new unit I was surprised the OS (Debian 11) was unable to recognize / mount the single EXT4 partition in the disk. Before continue ...
I own a 1 TB, data-only, internal HDD which I replaced for a 2 TB unit. When I plugged the old HDD into an USB HDD reader in order to transfer the data back to the new unit I was surprised the OS (Debian 11) was unable to recognize / mount the single EXT4 partition in the disk. Before continue ...