I am currently in mild panic.
I needed to add another partition to a single-partition NTFS hard-drive. After terrible judgement, I ran
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mkfs.exfat
There were, from what I can tell, no further writes in the hard-drive. I ran testdisk on it. After a very long scan (2h30m),
Disk /dev/sdd - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
With options to add partition and load backup.
Do I have any hope in this scenario? What exactly are the options?
Any assistance is very much appreciated. Thank you!
EDIT: I am looking through some other posts. In my case, this is an external HDD with no boot partition. From what I can recall, there was only a single partition with files, in NTFS format. Also, after reading the documentation for mkfs.exfat, I did not choose the full-format option, which brings me some hope.
Also, the log file from testdisk:
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Partition table type (auto): None
Disk /dev/sdd - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - Seagate Expansion
Partition table type: Intel
Analyse Disk /dev/sdd - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Current partition structure:
No partition is bootable
search_part()
Disk /dev/sdd - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
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