No Recordings, No Disk Capacity?

[Black Hole]

I wish I knew what I've done with my USB-SATA adapter...

 

[Black Hole]

Now connected direct to my motherboard. HDD from a FVP-4000T, Seagate ST1000VM002 (1TB).

So presumably the first thing you are doing is a long Smart test?
Has anyone ever posted any details of the disk layout for one of these boxes? Partitions, filesystems etc.
I don't recall, but then I'm not really that interested as I'll probably never see one.

Here are the details gleaned by GParted:



It seemed to slug my Mint start-up, but the BIOS recognised it in the SATA table, and the system does boot eventually with this disk connected. It seems intact. Now for a long test...