I was hoping to borrow the hard drive out of my personal video recorder or PVR, . I found out that it's LINUX and formatted in a very strange way.
The file system is LINUX ext2 and half the drive appears to be unformatted. I've downloaded the necessary program to view the files that are on the hard drive at least the formatted portion. But it's totally baffling me this raw partition. It's a 250 GB hard drive, and 132 GB appear to be a raw unformatted partition.
I was hoping to copy the data and may be the programs I had recorded and also use the drive something out for a bit, and then return it to its original state and put it back in my set-top box. But it's so weird it's got me very unsure.
In case anyone's wondering, that unformatted partition really looks like it's unformatted, the LINUX software I downloaded should all the various format options and it clearly shows it is just a raw partition. Gparted boot disk shows the same. Any thoughts?


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