pls...Urgent help needed!!!! --To copy an hard drive

[want2bdeveloper]

Hi all,

Could anyone please help me to copy an hard drive (external) to my computer or to burn the material in hd to cd?

The external hard drive is from a friend and has good study material which i want to copy either to my hard drive or preferable burn on a cd. Is it possible to do it? I am new to hardware.

The external hd was run on unix machine but the one i have, is run on windows.

Pls advice.

Regards,Ria

 

[want2bdeveloper]

I guess, i am talking about data transfer from an external hard drive to a PC or cd.

Pls. help.

Ria

 

[TekTippy4U]

I "think" you could burn it to CD-R/CDRW using the UDF Packet writing format....which comes standard w/Nero.it's called InCD....
Windows can read UDF....(Universal Disk Format)
I've not had the pleasure of using it...but once outta curiosity I did try....and it seemed to take a long time to format the CD first(45 min- 1hr)....and then burn(another 10-15 min) using USB 1.1 though.
I cant remember if I had to format first cause I was using CD-RW blanks.......
I can tell you this though..
If you want to burn a CD with Music on it.....Use CD-R blanks, so you can play them in any standard CD player and PC's......
If you don't, and use Re-Writable blanks there's a good chance another PC won't read it.....and a Hreat chance a regular CD player won't either

I don't like Re-writables...can u tell?
I'm probably confusing you more than helping right now, but hang in there

TT4U

Notification:
These are just "my" thoughts....and should be carefully measured against other opinions....I try very hard to impart correct info at all times.

 

[wolluf]

If the drive has been used by Unix, presumably has a filestore type that windows can't read - without special software (I know Linux uses ext2 - not sure what Unix usually uses). If the drive was still attached to unix machine & that was connected to same network as your machine, you should be able to read it then.

Is the drive still connected to Unix machine?

How much material is there? (eg, if less than say 20MB, could try uploading/downloading it to/from some webspace)?

 

[SYAR2003]

A solution would be to install it in a linux pc with ftp server running , make a ftp site that point to the drive .
Connect the windows pc and download over local lan.

Another possibility is to hook up the drive in the windows pc , boot it with knoppix cd , and copy the stuff to a fat/fat32 partition .

SYAR