How can I open files in external drive maker bufallo

[reggie_92]

had some problem where I can't open file in my 500gb external drive:
had only 9gb free space
cant scan as well
but it can be reformatted but I dont want to erase my files
Anyway I can recover those files?

 

[house70]

You will need to clean up the drive to free up more disk space.

 

[reggie_92]

The problem is I cant free up some space or delete some folder as it appears corrupted.

 

[house70]

Can you attach the HDD to a Ubuntu system and get the files from it?
At this point, using a different OS would make sense, because Windows seems to have problems with HDDs that have less than 15% free space.

 

[FireWire2]

Download and install this utility the your windows can read/write EXT2/EXT3 format
http://www.ext2fsd.com/