Disk problems continued, however and I ran fix-disk again but it seemed to go into an infinite loop in that it kept finding new bad sectors (like in the above messages) and resetting its count-down counter to 1520ish every time, so looked like it was never going to finish. SATA is widely supported by modern computers and operating systems, ensuring broad compatibility and ease of use.

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I welcome all attempts to sympathise, share experiences, or educate, but please do not just suggest that steps taken are brain dead or that it was pointless to mention them, or assume that an authoritative opinion has value without evidence - Russel's teapot is definitely out there, but I encourage you to go check. I was/am looking for a bit more understanding or, if it happened to not be duff, suggestions as to what newbie idiocy I might have perpetrated in my config which could be undone to make things right.

MartinLiddle Good thought - I will post more details from (paper) disk label when I open box up again after the weekend as I am away until next week.

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So, is there anything else I can usefully try such as tweaking the e2fs parameters, or does it look like my brand new disk is just faulty ?ASUS ASUS ROG Flow Z13 GZ301ZE-LC218W - Tablet - with detachable keyboard - Intel Core i9 12900H / 2.

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For what it is worth, hummy still cranks away despite disk problems and continues to record stuff, most of which is coming out fine. Your product serial number is a unique identifier that allows us to look up information about your product and its warranty. After around 36 hours I gave up, rebooted, and ran the maint menu reformat option, deleting everything. I removed a couple of potentially corrupt files and other things started working better - some recordings decrypted and became watchable (may or may not be due to disk, but it looked like it - I was also playing with autodecrypt settings so cannot be 100% sure it was just from file removal that things started working better).Seeing as you asked, I reinstalled the custom firmware initially to get it up to date as it was several years old, then after wiping the disk I did it again to get a clean slate and exclude any possible complications from any added packages or messing up of config on my part, to remove those potential sources of 'noise' from the situation. Web interface trashed, obviously, and had trouble reinstalling it (from telnet menu or opkg --force-reinstall) so successfully reinstalled firmware (again) so I know nothing missing and all clean as I hope to run with this for another few years. When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST2000VM003 Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). Repeating short and cryptic messages from the diagnostic without further 'aha - that means this definitive disastrous disk condition is extant', or just pointers to useful docs or explanations, does not really move things forward.

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If your drive is not detected or connected to your computer: The USB devices have the serial numbers printed on the external cases and internal drives have the serial and part numbers on the drive labels.I will send it back this week once I have retrieved remaining files off it, in case they are still watchable (pot luck - some were OK). If the drive is connected to your Mac, you can use the Apple System Profiler to determine the model number and serial number.