Matiw wrote:
What is bothering me is the part that says "a quick format in order to regenerate the partition". Does not this step destroy used data ?
It is a "poor choice" of wording if you will that leads to wrong interpretation of what exactly is happening.
The command "does not format the partition", it rather recreates the proper translation for the partition. There is a high degree of complexity behind those m0 2 2 etc. numbers within the command. They each have a specific purpose. Typing the "wrong number" within the command may/will likely screw things up, especially among other Seagate models and so on.
A different specific set of numbers does have the ability to destroy the data, hence what I mentioned above is dangerous when applied without deep firmware understanding/knowledge.