Here is what happened:
I cannot afford to lose these files (there was around 750gb). They are my family photos, and other very important files.
Please, someone let me know if there is any way to recover back from this. Or is the only option to manually recover the data using third-party software?
Here is an image of the Popup: https://external-content.duckduckgo...gpt/initialize-disk-mbr-or-gpt.gif&f=1&nofb=1
- I have 2 hard drives. 1 is SSD, 1 is HDD. On SSD was Linux, on HDD were my files (I created the HDD from the Linux in the disk utility)
- Bought another SSD with Windows on it, disconnected previous SSD. I'm using Windows now.
- As I was trying to mount the HDD hard drive on Windows, I went to disk management and it asked me the following "You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk manager can access it" and asked me whether I want GPT or MBR.
- I clicked GPT option. There was absolutely no warnings of data loss or anything - it quickly did something and the Window disappeared.
- Reading online how to further mount the hard drive, I read things like "How to Initialize Disk MBR or GPT without Losing Data". Without losing data?!?
I cannot afford to lose these files (there was around 750gb). They are my family photos, and other very important files.
Please, someone let me know if there is any way to recover back from this. Or is the only option to manually recover the data using third-party software?
Here is an image of the Popup: https://external-content.duckduckgo...gpt/initialize-disk-mbr-or-gpt.gif&f=1&nofb=1