Getting Info Off Drive, world edition drive 2tb

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Please help

I have a 2tb drive that I have taken out of my World Book and I need to get info off it. Since WB died.

I put it in my Win7 system, and it shows up as

5 partitions

31mb unallocated

1.87gb healthy

251mb healthy

965mb healthy

1859.93gb healthy

Only option it is giving me in disk manager is to delete.  Obviously dont want to do that.

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The hard drives inside a WD My Book World Edition use the EXT3 File System, which is not supported by Microsoft Windows. You will need a specialized application able to read EXT3 partitions in a Windows environment, or a Linux-based system.

Regards,

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OK I just installed a windows based program that gave it a drive letter.  However when i go to open it, it asks me to format it.

Is there a program that I can use to read and copy the files from the drive to my windows system?

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Careful using the windows based ext extensions, they have been known to mess the drive up pretty bad. Not physically, but the data on it rather. I cannot usually get them to work very well.

I would agree with  Trancer as far as using a linux environment to read the drive. I might suggest booting from a Linux Live CD/DVD. Most mount the drive by default and can just read them from a file exporer.

Hiren’s BootCD 15.2 should also do the trick.

If you need further assistance with that, gimme a hollar.

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I just now realized you are the other thread also lol.