Hi guys. Let me summarise so to not ramble on.
I have a media player (popcorn c200). Internal 2tb HDD. Connected to my wired network. PC has 5 drives and the c200 drive is mapped so I can view it over the network.
The c200 drive has numerous folders. One named videos which had 1.8 tb worth of videos.
Today, the folder disappeared, then reappeared but with no content.
I can't run recovery data software on the PC as it won't work with a drive on the network, right?
I can connect the drive to my PC externally using a cable I bought, the PC sees it, but cos its ext2 it just tells me to format it.
I've installed ext2 ifs before, which allows windows to see ext 2 drives, but it doesn't work with windows 7.
I opened disk management and the drive shows as RAW. I tried running RAW to NTFS software but it doesn't work which I'm assuming is because it was originally ext 2.
Is there anything else I can do to try and recover this folder?
I tried running ext 2 ifs on a vista laptop, it saw the the drive when I connected it but it still wasn't accessible, presumably because it's RAW. So I managed to start running Windows Data Recovery but the laptop running Vista is useless and not very reliable. It did get half an hour in and was scanning sectors and was nowhere near complete but the laptop died as like I said, it's unreliable even when plugged in. I can try this again but imagine it to be a long process and the laptop might fail on me.
Is there any other way I can do this on my PC? Any other software I don't know of?
Much appreciate any help.
I have a media player (popcorn c200). Internal 2tb HDD. Connected to my wired network. PC has 5 drives and the c200 drive is mapped so I can view it over the network.
The c200 drive has numerous folders. One named videos which had 1.8 tb worth of videos.
Today, the folder disappeared, then reappeared but with no content.
I can't run recovery data software on the PC as it won't work with a drive on the network, right?
I can connect the drive to my PC externally using a cable I bought, the PC sees it, but cos its ext2 it just tells me to format it.
I've installed ext2 ifs before, which allows windows to see ext 2 drives, but it doesn't work with windows 7.
I opened disk management and the drive shows as RAW. I tried running RAW to NTFS software but it doesn't work which I'm assuming is because it was originally ext 2.
Is there anything else I can do to try and recover this folder?
I tried running ext 2 ifs on a vista laptop, it saw the the drive when I connected it but it still wasn't accessible, presumably because it's RAW. So I managed to start running Windows Data Recovery but the laptop running Vista is useless and not very reliable. It did get half an hour in and was scanning sectors and was nowhere near complete but the laptop died as like I said, it's unreliable even when plugged in. I can try this again but imagine it to be a long process and the laptop might fail on me.
Is there any other way I can do this on my PC? Any other software I don't know of?
Much appreciate any help.
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