Had a failing Seagate hard drive taken from an old Linux machine. There was some data on the HDD that I was keen to extract.
First of all tried to access it from an Ubuntu PC, it could see the disk, but was refusing to mount partitions – hard drive was too badly damaged.
Then tried couple of Windows tools:
A little open source utility. Runs without installation and is less than 1MB in size. Unfortunately it couldn’t detect the Linux hard drive or partitions at all.
A free utility by DiskInternals. Worked great for me. Could easily browse all Linux partitions and copy some of the data. While coying data disk completely died, but this obviously not DiskInternals Linux Reader’s fault. You download version 1.6.4.0 from here or check for latest version on DiskInternals website.
Leave a Reply