Windows 10 "Rescan Disks" horror
Posted: 06 Nov 2016, 06:49
I had a Ubuntu computer with two drives, a 250GB SSD and a 3TB regular drive. I wanted to migrate to Windows 10 so I put all the files I wanted to save on the second drive and reformatted the first drive and installed Windows 10 on it. Now I'm 90% sure the second drive was formatted in exFat, but for some reason windows 10 couldn't read it. I opened up disk manager and it popped up a dialogue wanting me to initialize the disk in GPT.
I clicked cancel because I didn't want windows messing with data on the drive. My mistake was then going to the action menu and selecting "Rescan Disks" thinking it would just scan. Instead I think that prompted disk manager to initialize the drive to my horror. I then booted into an Ubuntu Live CD and it couldn't read the drive any more. So today I started a Test Disk. I chose Intel/PC partition (not sure if that is correct). I did an analyze scan of the full drive /dev/sdc trying to get my partition back to readable. This is the screen and log file it produced.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8C31 ... sp=sharing
It looks like what windows created after clicking "Rescan Disks." Can anyone suggest how I can repair my full drive partition and recover all the files? I think there was about 200GB on that disk.
I clicked cancel because I didn't want windows messing with data on the drive. My mistake was then going to the action menu and selecting "Rescan Disks" thinking it would just scan. Instead I think that prompted disk manager to initialize the drive to my horror. I then booted into an Ubuntu Live CD and it couldn't read the drive any more. So today I started a Test Disk. I chose Intel/PC partition (not sure if that is correct). I did an analyze scan of the full drive /dev/sdc trying to get my partition back to readable. This is the screen and log file it produced.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8C31 ... sp=sharing
It looks like what windows created after clicking "Rescan Disks." Can anyone suggest how I can repair my full drive partition and recover all the files? I think there was about 200GB on that disk.