detached IDE hard drive backup

[ishamid]

Hi,

I have a WD Caviar IDE HD, 60G. The computer for which it was a slave
drive is apparently defunct. I need to get the data off of this drive,
Plugging it into my HP Pavilion Media Center is apparently not so
straightforward (could not find the appropriate wiring inside the
machine to plug it).

Question 1: Is there some USB or the like hardware utility I can use to
access this drive so that my computer can recognize it (and I can move
the data)?

Question 2: The drive in question is linux-formatted. What is the best
utility for reading linux-formatted drives (reiser-fs I believe) from
Windows?

Best
Idris

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a WD Caviar IDE HD, 60G. The computer for which
it was a slave drive is apparently defunct. I need to get the
data off of this drive, Plugging it into my HP Pavilion Media
Center is apparently not so straightforward (could not find
the appropriate wiring inside the machine to plug it).

Not even if you temporarily put it in place of the optical drive ?

Question 1: Is there some USB or the like hardware utility I can use
to access this drive so that my computer can recognize it (and I can
move the data)?

Yes. You can use either an external USB case which you can put the
drive into, or you can by them with just a fat connector block that plugs
into the drive and which has a cable to the USB port on the Pavilion.

Question 2: The drive in question is linux-formatted. What is the best
utility for reading linux-formatted drives (reiser-fs I believe) from Windows?

Dunno.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi,

I have a WD Caviar IDE HD, 60G. The computer for which it was a slave
drive is apparently defunct. I need to get the data off of this drive,
Plugging it into my HP Pavilion Media Center is apparently not so
straightforward (could not find the appropriate wiring inside the
machine to plug it).

Question 1: Is there some USB or the like hardware utility I can use to
access this drive so that my computer can recognize it (and I can move
the data)?

A standard IDE-to-USB interface should do it. You can get them
with or without case attached.

Question 2: The drive in question is linux-formatted. What is the best
utility for reading linux-formatted drives (reiser-fs I believe) from
Windows?

There is no way for ReiserFS, AFAIK. The best way to do it with
Linux is to use a FAT32 partition as target.

Arno

 

[Michael Cecil]

Question 2: The drive in question is linux-formatted. What is the best
utility for reading linux-formatted drives (reiser-fs I believe) from
Windows?

Well, a quick search shows a company called Nucleus Technologies offering
something called Kernel ReiserFS, a Windows program to do such recovery
for around $400. Maybe you can get it cheaper.