I have an external HDD I fucked up years ago when trying to recover data from another HDD. I basically corrupted the partition but from what I could tell I could still use something like photorec to get the data back and then reformat it. Well this was fucking years ago and of course my lazy ass never did it soon enough.
So I finally tried, and the drive didn't even show up. I even shucked it and connected it via sata and it still won't show up. I tried using the lsblk command and it would a bunch of nbd# blocks with 0 bytes to them. Might have been something else though.
I assume this means this drive is 100% dead. But is there any weird magic tricks I could try to see if it magically comes back alive? It's not like I could lose anything more at this point.