My buddy wants me to extract files out of his dead PC. I don't have one of those SATA to USB cables but what I can do is unplug the CD/DVD drive and plug in the HDD instead (I've used this method to format 2 HDDs before). The only problem is, I just recently started using Ubuntu so I don't exactly know how to open files that are stored in another HDD. Thanks in advance.
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3Possible duplicate of Detect and mount devices – David Foerster Jan 13 '17 at 22:49
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Yes of course. This is why using Linux. It should at least be able to read any common known file system. This is what Windows users can't even imagine. Basic things that work out of the box including cross platform. – Sprinterfreak Feb 25 '18 at 04:38
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You can launch Nautilus (Ubuntu file explorer) to view the device if it is automounted and just copy files from there.
Otherwise you can try to find the device name with
sudo fdisk -l
Then try mounting it with
sudo mount -t /dev/sdb1 /media
where /dev/sdb1 is the name found with fdisk
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