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I have a 1TB HDD as a storage drive for my computer (running Ubuntu 18.04) that I've used for a few years now. Out of nowhere, the disk is unable to mount properly. fdisk currently shows the correct partition sizes for the device, but shows the disk size as only 7.9GB. (While /dev/sdb1 reports as a boot partition, it's worth noting that I don't actually boot to it. It's just an old windows partition I don't really use anymore).

I tried open gparted, and got an error saying "Can't have a partition outside the disk!", presumably because it thinks the disk is only 7.9GB in size. I also tried running lsblk but it reads the same size.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Whelp, turns out it wasn't a software issue at all. The contacts on the SATA connector were a bit dirty. Works fine after cleaning up/plugging back in.

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