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emazur
26th January 2006, 16:49
I've got a standalone Sony RDR-HX70 dvd/hd recorder, and hooked up the hard disk to my comp and it's recognized by the bios and Windows, but i can't actually read the files nor is the drive assigned a letter. This is likely using a file system windows doesn't recognize natively. But there's gotta be a back door right?

Also to be clear, I don't want to clone this hd (googling seems to indicate this is possible from windows) but rather i want to access the files. I used to diligently back up the programs from the standalone to dvdrw and then author a dvd in windows, but not anymore and there's a ton of files. It would take too long to back up to dvd, so I just want to read the files, copy and author.

Mr_Odwin
26th January 2006, 17:52
I think I read about a similar problem and they did this:
start>run>compmgmt.msc>disk management.
Windows wouldn't see the hard disk until it was marked as active, or something.

emazur
26th January 2006, 18:44
My gut is telling me that's not gonna work (when i click on device mgr properties of the drive, it says unknown file system/not formatted). Any other takers? Also for those interested in the cloning method this is what i found:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=159498

Inventive Software
28th January 2006, 12:21
Try linux?

emazur
28th January 2006, 15:23
Nope, but if I have good reason to believe it might work I could install it on a spare hd

DigitAl56K
28th January 2006, 20:12
Why install it? Download a Live CD.

http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php