Hi peeps,

I have limited experience with Linux, but have an old xiva music8 that has a corrupt operating system on it and there's no possibly way to rescue it apparently according to the support line. The only way to save all my cd colection is to remove the files fro the hard drive, which is Linux formated (ext?)
Is there a way to be able to recover the flac and MP3 files using a windows pc from a Linux formated drive? Can any one advise?

Many thanks,

Steve

On Monday, 7 August 2017 14:24:47 UTC+1, Mr Sandman wrote:
Hi peeps,

I have limited experience with Linux, but have an old xiva music8 that has a corrupt operating system on it and there's no possibly way to rescue it apparently according to the support line. The only way to save all my cd colection is to remove the files fro the hard drive, which is Linux formated (ext?)
Is there a way to be able to recover the flac and MP3 files using a windows pc from a Linux formated drive? Can any one advise?

Many thanks,

Steve

Sounds like you need an ext3/4 reading utility.


NT

On 07/08/2017 14:24, Mr Sandman wrote:
Hi peeps,

I have limited experience with Linux, but have an old xiva music8 that has a corrupt operating system on it and there's no possibly way to rescue it apparently according to the support line. The only way to save all my cd colection is to remove the files fro the hard drive, which is Linux formated (ext?)
Is there a way to be able to recover the flac and MP3 files using a windows pc from a Linux formated drive? Can any one advise?

Many thanks,

Steve

Boot the Windows PC with Knoppix or a Ununtu/whatever live CD and read
the disk from that.

On 07/08/17 14:40, Chris Bartram wrote:
On 07/08/2017 14:24, Mr Sandman wrote:
Hi peeps,

I have limited experience with Linux, but have an old xiva music8 that
has a corrupt operating system on it and there's no possibly way to
rescue it apparently according to the support line. The only way to
save all my cd colection is to remove the files fro the hard drive,
which is Linux formated (ext?)
Is there a way to be able to recover the flac and MP3 files using a
windows pc from a Linux formated drive? Can any one advise?

Many thanks,

Steve

Boot the Windows PC with Knoppix or a Ununtu/whatever live CD and read
the disk from that.

yes. thats probably the simplest way.

put the old hd either in a usb caddy or in the winpc, an boot linux.

try an fsck on the corrupted disk if it wont mount.

Mr Sandman wrote

I have limited experience with Linux, but have an old xiva music8
that has a corrupt operating system on it and there's no possibly
way to rescue it apparently according to the support line. The
only way to save all my cd colection is to remove the files fro
the hard drive, which is Linux formated (ext?)

Is there a way to be able to recover the flac and MP3 files using
a windows pc from a Linux formated drive? Can any one advise?

Its better to boot a windows like linux live CD like Ubuntu and copy those
files using that.

Its not that hard to use in that situation.

So run ubuntu from disk?

"Mr Sandman" wrote in message
...
So run ubuntu from disk?

Yep.

On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 06:58:48 UTC+1, Mr Sandman wrote:
So run ubuntu from disk?

direct from CD. I agree this is the better option, but some windows only people will struggle with it in some cases, so try it.


NT

On 07/08/2017 14:33, wrote:
On Monday, 7 August 2017 14:24:47 UTC+1, Mr Sandman wrote:
Hi peeps,

I have limited experience with Linux, but have an old xiva music8 that has a corrupt operating system on it and there's no possibly way to rescue it apparently according to the support line. The only way to save all my cd colection is to remove the files fro the hard drive, which is Linux formated (ext?)
Is there a way to be able to recover the flac and MP3 files using a windows pc from a Linux formated drive? Can any one advise?

Many thanks,

Steve

Sounds like you need an ext3/4 reading utility.


I use ext2fsd

http://www.ext2fsd.com

Andy

On 07/08/2017 2:24 PM, Mr Sandman wrote:
Hi peeps,

I have limited experience with Linux, but have an old xiva music8 that has a corrupt operating system on it and there's no possibly way to rescue it apparently according to the support line. The only way to save all my cd colection is to remove the files fro the hard drive, which is Linux formated (ext?)
Is there a way to be able to recover the flac and MP3 files using a windows pc from a Linux formated drive? Can any one advise?

Many thanks,

Steve



Other than the CD option, you can get a LIVE USB OS that will boot.