NTFS Signature is missing
- by LuckyBearing
So I got a new secondary hard drive caddy and formatted it to NTFS. I forgot to partition the drive after formatting, I rebooted and now I can't access the drive that has around 400gb of data because the NTFS Signature is missing.
"Error mounting...NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?"
Says the same thing for sdb1. But I think the sdb2 has most, if not all of the copied data.
How do I retrieve my data back?
I read somewhere I can install ntfs-progs and it will fix the issue.
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