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Accessing files on HD?
Situation:
I have a SSD that is currently attached to my Windows 7 laptop via a SATA to USB adapter. It shows up on disk management and all appears to be fine. However, this SSD has already been partitioned with CentOS installed on it. I am trying to figure out how I can easily recover some files on this drive to my laptop.
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Windows doesn't have drivers for a lot of the filesystems (like EXT3, EXT4) common on *nix systems.
One solution is to run linux inside of a virtual machine, and mount that drive inside of it (you can even run the CentOS you already have installed on that drive). Then, access your files via some network protocol, such as SFTP/FTPS/FTP/NFS/CIFS/SMB.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
Yeah this is what I thought too.
This is pretty much a last resort for me as I don't have any spare parts conveniently lying around.
Thanks will look into this.
(insert your favorite data recovery boot cd/ISO of choice name here)
Spare parts? I meant running something like VirtualBox or VMware WorkStation on your laptop.
Would like to thank JARLAND for giving me EXACTLY what I needed. Issue now resolved.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ Another option for you.
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
bridge between your Windows and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, HFS and ReiserFS file systems
If you want to recover formated disk, try filescavenger.
Yesterday I'm having a problem with my friend usb, it's somehow locked / formated by windows 7 and can't be read from windows xp.