The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jkkpr on 2024-05-26 19:44:56.
And the friend needs help.
Apparently, the friend formatted a 16 TB drive on windows, and it worked at the time and put lots of data on it. Then after reboot doesn't work on windows. And doesn't work on Linux either. (No allocation tables?)
I'm using Ubuntu 24 and can't get it to mount. It reads and acknowledges that the drive exists, but not sure how to get the data off of it. Various instructions to mount as a NTFS drive have not worked. Also tried asking nicely, and was met with a low grumbling sound.
any help? for the friend, I mean. Because I would never do anything that stupid.
Edit:
16 TB Western Digital. Hooked up to a USB enclosure, drive itself is good, just formatted it wrong to begin with.
I tried test-disk as suggested, didn't show a partition for NTFS or various FATs.