First time for me to use `git annex dead` because a drive is *actually* dead... 😔
Luckily, with #gitAnnex I have a good overview over the files that were on that drive and most likely have no data loss, because #gitAnnex copied the files around elsewhere all the time. 👍
🎁 Nice surprise: The drive wasn't actually dead, just the #USB/ #SATA connector! 🎉
Still, the IT guys I gave the drive to check nuked the partition table, so the drive was 'empty' 😅 Apparently the partition table was broken 🤷
Luckily, re-writing the partition table with `cfdisk` in the default way I always do for a single ext4 partition, then running `testdisk` to find the lost partitions was enough to get back access to all files! 🥳
Yann Büchau 
some random Surveyor