I need a new external drive. Recomendations?

[Martinr36]

Thank you. It is the unallocated part that I am interested in. There were never any partitions on the disk. This was inside a Seagate expansion external HDD enclosure that developed a fault (please see first post). The unallocated space here could correspond to the disk space that actually had the data, the 232GB sounds about right on the amount of free space the disk had before I took it off the Seagate enclosure.

I'd be guessing that the 232GB contained Seagate software/tools and that before you had problems was probably a hidden partition which you wouldn't have seen unless you went into disc manager

 

[psyxologos]

I'd be guessing that the 232GB contained Seagate software/tools and that before you had problems was probably a hidden partition which you wouldn't have seen unless you went into disc manager

I think that's what it was. Anyway. Thankfully no bad sectors anywhere, so hopefully it's all good now.