Volume gone, can't boot up!

malef!c

malef!c

malef!c

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Chaps.

I have a linux box (Centos 5) that I use as a NAS and today my USB to SATA converter dies knocking out (I think this is what it said): Volume 2 missing then the rest of the machine doesn't boot up.

Is there a way that I can get the machine up and working without that volume (which I take it as the USB connected drive)

I tried connecting the drive to my Windows box (the only one I have with built in SATA connectors) and it powers up and you can see it in 'My Computer' but will not read.

I just need to get the info off the drive and then plug it into my Windows box (I am going back to Windows as I sort of know what I am doing there!)

Any ideas how I can do this easily?

Sorry thats a bit ragged a story but there is a bit of data on there I can't lose :(

M.
 
Hi mate windows will never be able to read that drive it will turn up in your computer management but the filing system is not readable.

I didn't really grasp the problem here, but it looks like you want to restore the content of that drive because it doesn't boot up into your Linux os is that what you mean?
 
What filesystem is the drive? If the Windows install can see the partition and it's EXT2/3 then you may be in luck - http://fs-driver.org/ will give you the ability to read an EXT2/3 partition, then you could copy the data off to another partition.

I've used it before and it worked for me..
 
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