Hey.. My DTL-H10030A came today, how can I dump the hard drive? It's empty but there may be data still on there.
You have some option to recover the linux partition. I was using Stellar Linux recovery. Another option is using dd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29 Use allways raw mode and dont write on the disk. Good luck!;-)
It most likely will not work under windows, sense, It probably doesn't use a windows file system like ntfs or fat. windows only knows how to read ntfs and fat. There is software that reads the linux file system ext2 under windows, but that's if the ps2 hdd uses ext2.
stellar can recover ext2 ext3 under windows. give it a try !! Also can fat32 or ntsf... I try it with same hdd i dont talk bullshit ...^^
been awhile sense iv been on windows, last time i knew the software that allowed for ext3 to be read under windows, didn't support journalling, so it was mounted as ext2.
You could try winhex. I'm sure it's got it's own ext2 and ext3 drivers, I know it has custom NTFS and FAT drivers as you can do some pretty amazing things with it on the drive windows is running from EnCase would recover it too (if you're a forensics toff =/).
sorry but when i like to dump such partition i want it raw, and sure dd or other. But on win its an easy way, i just want to help. Try it or ... edit: dd is unix , it exist an win version, just read and try it ...
I don't want to be a party popper, but if the HDD has been used for PS2 native games the filesystem would be APA+PFS and not anything related to linux.
while true, a dd dump would allow you to at least get a copy of the data for playing with and/or you could inspect the dump via hex editor to see if anything identifiable is there before wasting time trying to get into it...
