#Read xfs drive in windows how to#
#Read xfs drive in windows Pc#
#Read xfs drive in windows windows#

Windows XP canвЂ™t see it with Explorer - I do see it through Administrative tools/Computer Management/Disk Management but itвЂ™s reported as being вЂњUnallocatedвЂќ. I took it out of the MyBook enclosure and connected to a SATA connector in a desktop. I have the same issue and I still didnвЂ™t manage to recover the data from the WD drive. The xfs volume was the one with all my data.ДЄgain, thanks for the helpful information! Just FYI, when I booted up in Linux, my drived showed as 2 ext3 volumes and 1 xfs volume. I had nearly 100 bad files but the bulk of my files were saved! Thank you so much for you post, I really appreciate it!

#Read xfs drive in windows how to#

Finally I found this post with the instructions on how to connect the drive directly as a SATA drive and using Linux to mount the dirve. I tried resetting it, unplugging it, connecting it directly to my computer - nothing worked. The bottom light was on solid, but I could not detect the drive on my network anymore. In the middle of the SYNC my WD10000H1NC stopped working. Mostly everything was fine, still an occasional bad file or two, until I tried to SYNC my nearly 9000 songs in iTunes to my iPod Classic. I assumed the issue was just a few bad sectors on the drive so I didnвЂ™t worry about it and decided to rip a bunch of my old CDs to the drive. My WD10000H1NC had been showing signs of problems, like audio files that I had recorded to it were showing up as bad occasionally, or even a few of my picture files. Note that some filenames may be unusual in length and may have to be renamed during this process.Д©) Once complete, shut down Puppy, turn off the PC, remove the Mybook HDD.ДЎ0) Restart your PC, and back up your recovered files to a new source.

Note that if the drive is really shagged, this is final confirmation that you will not be able to view the contents and need to break out the kleenex.ДЁ) Drag and drop copy (hold CTRL)В the files you want to save from the Mybook HDD to the destination HDD.

#Read xfs drive in windows Pc#

There is a way to recover the data with little expenditure, I managed to recover all my stuff (some 400Gb)В but you need a PC that is SATA based in order to be able to plug in the HDD and access the stored contents.ДЎ) Download from the internet a copy of Puppy Linux and burn it onto a CD as a bootable operating system.Дў) Remove the HDD from the defective Mybook.ДЈ) Fit the HDD to the SATA based PC, both power and data leads.Д¤) Insert the Puppy Linux bootable distro into the PCвЂ™s CD drive.ДҐ) Instruct the PC to boot from the CD, you may need to edit your BIOS settings for this.Д¦) Allow Puppy Linux to boot up from the CD and mount the HDDs in your computer and the Mybook HDDД§) In Puppy, open the Mybook HDD into a Window, look for a suitable destination HDD on the PC and open that in a seperate window. A strange fault this, almost as if the Mybook was selectivly blind to what it was connected to. The on board interface for some reason kept reporting that вЂњDrive A Has FailedвЂќ but was able to access itвЂ™s Linux based operating system on a separate drive partition. Recently had a four year old Mybook World edition fitted with a 1Tb drive that had been working non stop until it keeled over with the same fault, data was intact but the control logic had died.