nixCraft

hello all,
i was wondering if there is a way to mount a "raw" filesystem? the device is a portable hdd, and my friend didnt format the hdd. so when i was examining it to the extent that windows lets me, it said that it was a raw filesystem. windows tells me to format the hdd, and linux tells me it doesnt reconize the filesystem. is there anyway i can mount it and get the data off so i can reformat the drive?

Thanks ya'll.

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You need to know file system type before running mount command. Is disk damaged?

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Rocky Jr.
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it has data on it, and it never was formated. windows labels it as RAW.

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Gigabye GA-MA790X-DS4 AM2+
VGA XFX 8800 512mb
AMD Phenom 9500 2.2gh AM2
G-Skill 2x2gb
FSP Blue Storm 500w
Plextor DVD+/- RW

The issue was resolved. i used testdisk to recover the data. the only thing that was unable to be recovered was the movies. what i did was make an image to my harddrive, and then load the image with the testdisk program and then analyse it, and copy the data to the external after i reformated it. check out the Testdisk Documentation to get more information on how it works.

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Gigabye GA-MA790X-DS4 AM2+
VGA XFX 8800 512mb
AMD Phenom 9500 2.2gh AM2
G-Skill 2x2gb
FSP Blue Storm 500w
Plextor DVD+/- RW