NTFS Signature is missing

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Published on 2014-05-31T02:16:49Z Indexed on 2014/05/31 3:54 UTC
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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. here

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