I was running Ubuntu 14.10 with 3 NTFS disks that I used for data storage. So I decided to change the operating system back to Windows 8 and 2 of the disks I was able to read however the third disk showed up as uninitialized in disk management which I for some stupid reason initialized.
I know now that if I had just booted with say Ubuntu live I could have accessed the data in that 3rd disk and copied the data over to one of the other disks alas that is now not an option. My question: is there any way to undo the initialization of the disk to fix the MBR/GPT back to it’s previous state or alternatively fix it in another way?