On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:54 +0000, Nigel Wade wrote: > mconsidine@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The hardware brower recognizes this as > > > > >> > > > > >> Device Start End Size(MB) Type > > > > >>/dev/hdd > > > > >> /hdd1 1 1460 11453 fat32 > > > > >> 1 1460 11453 Free space > > > > >> /hdd2 1461 7296 45779 No filesystem > > > > >> 7297 7298 10 Free space > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > Sorry for creating any confusion. > > > > The drive has data on it that I want to move over to the FC3 > > system already installed. The data is in a Windows > > filesystem > > structure and I don't want to have to put it into another > > system, boot it, hook it up to the LAN, etc. I just want to > > get the existing FC3 system to recognize it so that I can > > pull > > the large files off that I need. Once that is accomplished, > > repartitioning it using and ext2 or ext3 filesystem would be > > perfectly fine. > > > > Imagine the situation as this : you've got a perfectly well- > > running FC3 installation. Now you need more diskspace. > > Someone > > hands you a harddisk that had Win98 and it's filestructure > > on > > it. The disk was formatted (apparently) using EZ-Drive. > > You > > are welcome to reformat the disk, but only after copying a > > number of files over to the FC3 installation. > > > > That's as clear as I can make the situation. > > > > TIA, > > Matt > > > > According to installations instructions I found for EZ-Drive, you cannot use > a EZ-Drive formatted disk with anything but Windows. From the partition > table you showed earlier that would seem to be the case. /dev/hdd1 shows as > FAT32 and may be ok, but the rest of the partition table doesn't make a lot > of sense. > > What do you get if you run 'fdisk -l /dev/hdd' from a command line? > > Now you are tickling some long buried memories. Is EZ-Drive one of the disk compression tool that were popular some years ago? If so, it _will_ only work in Winblows and the only option I know of is to put it in a windows machine and use the LAN to move the files. I have not used those tools since drives of 6GB and larger came available, but I know they had the driver for the compression on the boot sector so it will work with Winblows, but not on other OSes. The actual data was in a compressed file, not written to a filesystem. > -- > Nigel Wade >