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Answer by loshad vtapkah for logical sector size changes depending on whether...

One more way (in fact improved the mentioned one here) to get the temporary access is to use losetup and kpartx. Here what I've done: losetup -f /dev/sdl kpartx -a /dev/loop2 Now we can use...

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Answer by gaborous for logical sector size changes depending on whether it is...

This is a common feature of nowadays external hard drives with a big capacity (>= 512 GB). The sector size is converted by the USB board in the enclosure of your external hard drive, and this trick...

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Answer by Christian Burger for logical sector size changes depending on...

It's a little late, but I had a similar problem after the USB port of my IOMEGA hard disk case broke off. I switched to another USB-2-SATA case just to discover, that I could not mount the EXT4...

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Answer by Sup_Fresh for logical sector size changes depending on whether it...

The new external HDD like WD brands use predefined formats. So the results is not guaranteed by any means. If you still want to try, I recommend low level format. This may or may NOT work.

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logical sector size changes depending on whether it is attached via USB or...

I have a 3TB WD disk (in a My Book Essential external drive.) I used parted under Linux to partition it with a GPT disklabel and loaded it up with data from my laptop through the USB cable. Then I...

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