Author Topic: Reading a LINUX partitioned HD with Windows? (Read 561 times)

Mini D · « **on:** July 11, 2005, 10:29:28 AM »

Is this possible?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** July 11, 2005, 10:40:48 AM »

Install Samba on the Linux side. It allows Windows to access the files as if they are on a Windows file system.

You'll be able to set the Samba side as a share and Windows will see it over the network so you can map the drive, if you like.

Schutt · « **Reply #2 on:** July 11, 2005, 02:09:26 PM »

I assume you have only the hd and want to connect it to the windows computer and read from it with windows?

If you have a linux computer by far easier to to either use samba or copy it on an fat formatted hd and then read the fat formatted hd in the windows pc.

Otherwise you can use recovery tools, i dont know if there is a free one but there are some which you have to pay for, they can read ext2 or raiser fs harddisks then you can copy the data from the hd.

If you know what type of linux filesystem is used on the hd try to find a program to read it... its probably either ext2,ext3 or raiser.

ciao

Mini D · « **Reply #3 on:** July 11, 2005, 02:53:58 PM »

Sorry, I should have been more specific.

I have a hard drive that was formatted for LINUX... not a LINUX box. Is there a way to read it with Windows 2k3?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** July 11, 2005, 03:43:53 PM »

Ahhh. I do not really now MD. Never had that situation. When I have Linux disks, I just plug them into a cheap Linux box and move the data over to Windows.

llama · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2005, 01:19:53 PM »

I have not found a reliable way to just install an EXT2 or EXT3 Linux-formatted hard drive into a windows box and have it just work. Here are some options that I've used that are known to work.

1. Install the drive into a Linux computer. Enable networking and read the drive from the Windows PC over the LAN. Or burn a CD on the Linux side with the files you want (or use floppies, or a keydrive, or a USB external drive, or whatever).

2. Get Knoppix or Mepis Linux, which will run directly from the Linux CD itself. There's NOTHING to install. Install the hard drive, boot off the Mepis or Knoppix CD, and then read the files you need off the hard drive. Either copy them to a the Windows FAT32 drive (NTFS not allowed), or use any previously mentioned removable media and copy the files over.

3. Buy and install Norton Ghost. Make a ghost image of the Linux drive. Then run Ghost Explorer in Windows and open the image file. Extract the files you want from the image file.

Hope this helps,
Llama

Schutt · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2005, 02:44:54 AM »

1. Tell us which file system it is formatted to. Linux has 4 or 5 possible file systems.

Ok here it is

try this one: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/explore2fs/explore2fs-1.07.zip

or
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ext2fsd/ext2fsd-0.24.zip?download

if its reiserfs try this one:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/visualrfstool/visualrftools0.1.1.zip?download

DoctorYO · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2005, 10:18:30 AM »

goto...

http://WWW.knoppix.net

download .iso 3.9 is newest..

Burn Iso

insert disk into your cdrom..

goto bios of computer

have computer boot from cdrom..

reboot

knoppix will load up..

then you will see a desktop

your hardrives should be on the left as icons..

select the icons and set them as write able. Do this by right mousing to properties and selecting the drives read only box as unchecked.. then unmount the drive and remount it and you will have access..

copy and paste just like windows..

when your done reboot, goto bios and set up the boot sequence as you had before..

DoctorYo

Granted not the exact scenario you wanted but if i understand correctly this would solve your problem..

beet1e · « **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2005, 02:31:06 PM »

MiniD

How are you getting on with Linux? I got my system built, installed RedHat FC3 Linux, and then set about installing IBM's Linux version of DB2. As for Linux, what a POS/PITA! All those freaking line commands and "switches"????

It was like stepping back into 1992 and DOS 5.0. I'm not impressed with Linux, but support for W2000 is about to dry up. May consider W2003 Server, unless something better comes up.

Schutt · « **Reply #9 on:** July 13, 2005, 02:52:31 PM »

First of you dont need the line commands, there are point and click tools for all stuff.

Apart from that i have servers running for 5 month and more without rebooting or touching them... wonder if windows 2003 can do that, i know windows xp cant.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #10 on:** July 13, 2005, 03:40:21 PM »

Hehe, beet1e, you just do not get it. Linux is not a POS/PITA. You just do not understand how to use it. And that is ok.

I prefer a CLI (command linie interface) versus any GUI. Heck, I disable all that stuff for HTC servers, so we can get at the command line. Why? When you run a server you need to be able to get to things quickly and a GUI slows me down too much.

Once you know how to use the commands, you can get a lot more done using a CLI versus a GUI anyday of the week. I can type two characters and backup the entire database system from 5 servers scattered all over the place. Try that with Windows.

For an application OS, Linux is lousy, simply due to the lack of applications available and standard ways to install and remove them.
But for servers, it is a tough one to beat.

When I was running my own shop I had this saying, "If you require a GUI, then you have no business running a server."

beet1e · « **Reply #11 on:** July 13, 2005, 04:22:36 PM »

My preference is for GUI. Why go to the trouble of having to remember lists of commands (and their switches) when you don't have to? I wrote a VFR flight planning app in 1993 using VB 3.0. And I was proud of the fact that it was entirely mouse driven, ie NO commands.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #12 on:** July 13, 2005, 04:55:06 PM »

That is fine for an application beet1e. Which is exactly my point.

GUI's have thier place. Running a server, in my opinion, is not one of them.

Oh, that backup program I run, also runs automatically and emails me if there is an error. Or I can run it manually by typing in two letters and hitting the key.
You could accomplish the same manual thing with a GUI, but it would take about 2 hours to get done.

And the reason you learn those commands is so you can be proficient at debugging a server when it has a problem. If you never learn them, you cannot debug the server. A GUI is not going to help in that situation and, in fact, will get in the way.

beet1e · « **Reply #13 on:** July 13, 2005, 05:15:00 PM »

Roger that, Skuzz. I'm not running a server, or at least not yet. We don't know how far we're going to develop the DB2 project...

wrag · « **Reply #14 on:** July 14, 2005, 12:50:27 PM »

Hey is anyone actually running AHII using Linux????????????????

ANYONE????????????