thank you, that's extremely informative.
after the initial post i was able to use testdisk to copy off all of the important files, many thanks for all your work.
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bad geometry: block count exceeds size of device after partition table recovery with testdisk
Hello,
I have a failing Seagate ST5000DM000-1FK1 from a Samsung D3 Station that stopped mounting on a debian machine yesterday. After testing further on another laptop and not seeing anything show up with lsblk/lsusb, I removed the drive from the enclosure and connected it directly via SATA to ...
I have a failing Seagate ST5000DM000-1FK1 from a Samsung D3 Station that stopped mounting on a debian machine yesterday. After testing further on another laptop and not seeing anything show up with lsblk/lsusb, I removed the drive from the enclosure and connected it directly via SATA to ...