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My last thought on this is that the drive may be formatted as exfat. This was common a few years back on MS storage devices. .....
.....Your best bet is probably to try the windows command line, and if you can get to mount properly clear it with the windows partition manager. ....... You might be better off to buy a 10$ SCSI to SATA adapter as suggested if you cannot use the windows disk manager to configure the disk order and convention in order to mount it. It's not mounting in Linux so the volume itself maybe using a proprietary paged startup convention, which only allows it to appear correctly in the windows build it was set up for, or it has an older windows security feature enabled, or it is using a striping convention for an older dated raid setup. ....It's hit or miss as to whether the disk is still operable, but if it was working when you stopped using it, it is probably still operable, unless you had it in a high dust or high humidity area. TC
Sounds like only the controller/connection is seen... But seeming more and more like HD failure.. .....
So I'm still baffled. How come in Windows this portable external drive is listed in Device Manager but not in Disk Management? How come in Linux Lite under System Info>Storage the drive shows up (with SCSI2 as controller), but is not seen - at all - in GParted?
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