Q: I try a Unix hard drive was an external drive to open. is there a way to attach to an IDE channel in an XP box to open the files?
if I do not assume that the disk format will not be difficult to correct?
Best Answer: Disk 0 (first drive) error indicates that the first drive in the computer have errors. Seems to me that you are familiar with BIOS. When you boot up the system, does it show the hard disk on the list as detected (it should show the capacity of the drive)?
With running windows setup, looks like it detected your drive. It should give you several options to install. Select the one where it allows you to create the partition and format.
If you have a windows 98 boot disk or msdos, download a disk diagnostic utility from the manufacturer of the hard drive. Boot the computer with a win98 or dos, and run the diagnostic. This should give you a good report if the drive is indeed good or bad.
Re:using knoppix could be helpful for this.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
If its ext2 or Reiserfs, you can read it from Windows.
http://sssup1.sssup.it/~pit/reiserfs.html
Have you used that, or was it the result of a google search? It hardly looks usable to me, but I may not be understanding it.
I've used ext2fsd: http://sys.xiloo.com/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ and it works well. All you have to do is load the driver from the CLI then mount the partition to a drive letter and two commands and you're off, and you can read and write from any windows application.
Re:If its ext2 or Reiserfs, you can read it from Windows.
http://sssup1.sssup.it/~pit/reiserfs.html
Re:If it's not FAT or NTFS (read only) your best (only?) bet is to put it back in the "unix" box, then export it as a Windows share via Samba.
Re:You'll need to be more specific, by Unix do you mean Linux, Solaris, AIX, OpenServer, Tru64, etc? But in general, there's no unix filesystems available for Windows for a few reasons. MS won't develop any, the MS IFS development kit costs way too much money and it's a huge PITA to write one without it.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
Depends what file system was used. If it was an external drive, there is a fair chance it was formatted FAT32. Plug it in and see. If not, then it should be easy enough to reformat (losing all the data of course)
i wasn't aware that unix uses FAT32…
"Unix" is a pretty generic term.
Linux at least, can use FAT32. It's not the native filesystem of choice, but it works.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
or connect the external hd to a windows computer and share it.
Use the smbclient on linux to connect to the share.
sorry should have made it clearer, we're not the most unix savvy people on the world. is there way, if its not formatted in FAT or NTFS, that we could access the data form the XP GUI? am I wrong to assume that it would be formatted in something other than FAT or NTFS?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Depends what file system was used. If it was an external drive, there is a fair chance it was formatted FAT32. Plug it in and see. If not, then it should be easy enough to reformat (losing all the data of course)
i wasn't aware that unix uses FAT32…
Re:or connect the external hd to a windows computer and share it.
Use the smbclient on linux to connect to the share.
Re:Depends what file system was used. If it was an external drive, there is a fair chance it was formatted FAT32. Plug it in and see. If not, then it should be easy enough to reformat (losing all the data of course)
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