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Old 06-11-2007   #1 (permalink)
Oldspice


 
 

File Transfer delema

Just bought a new Dell PC, with Vista Home Premium. Took the Hard drive out
of my old PC, which was running LINUX, and put it into an external hard drive
shell.
When I connect the external drive to my PC and power up the new PC sees it
in the device manager but not in My Computer. Is there a program I can use
to transfer the files I need from the extrnal drive to the new PC?

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 06-11-2007   #2 (permalink)
ArameFarpado


 
 

Re: File Transfer delema

Em Terça, 12 de Junho de 2007 01:02, Oldspice escreveu:

> Just bought a new Dell PC, with Vista Home Premium. Took the Hard drive
> out of my old PC, which was running LINUX, and put it into an external
> hard drive shell.
> When I connect the external drive to my PC and power up the new PC sees
> it
> in the device manager but not in My Computer. Is there a program I can
> use to transfer the files I need from the extrnal drive to the new PC?


What filesystem has that disk?


My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 06-11-2007   #3 (permalink)
Rick Rogers


 
 

Re: File Transfer delema

Hi,

You need something that will allow Windows to read the ext2/ext3 file system
on the Linux drive. Here is one such tool:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Oldspice" <Oldspice@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C9D21A9D-DC0E-4CF7-8504-A468DC5D4568@microsoft.com...
> Just bought a new Dell PC, with Vista Home Premium. Took the Hard drive
> out
> of my old PC, which was running LINUX, and put it into an external hard
> drive
> shell.
> When I connect the external drive to my PC and power up the new PC sees
> it
> in the device manager but not in My Computer. Is there a program I can
> use
> to transfer the files I need from the extrnal drive to the new PC?


My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 06-11-2007   #4 (permalink)
ray


 
 

Re: File Transfer delema

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:02:00 -0700, Oldspice wrote:

> Just bought a new Dell PC, with Vista Home Premium. Took the Hard drive out
> of my old PC, which was running LINUX, and put it into an external hard drive
> shell.
> When I connect the external drive to my PC and power up the new PC sees it
> in the device manager but not in My Computer. Is there a program I can use
> to transfer the files I need from the extrnal drive to the new PC?


I believe there is an ext2/3 driver for MS and a reiser read-only driver -
I have no idea whether or not they would work with vista. Other option:
boot your linux distro or a Live CD and use ntfs-3g Linux driver to
transfer data.

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