Windows employs two major file systems, NTFS or FAT32, while EXT is the de factor file system for Linux. When an operating system is changed from Linux to Windows after reinstallation, the data disk remains in its original format. Therefore, the system might not be able to access data disk’s file system. In these cases, you will need to use a format converter to read the data disk.
This document describes how to read a data disk when the operating system has been reinstalled from Linux to Windows.
http://www.diskinternals.com/download/Linux_Reader.exe
If a data disk has been mounted, skip this step.
/root/mnt
and /root/mnt1
correspond to vdb1 and vdb2 respectively, which are the 2 data disk partitions on the Linux CVM before reinstallation as shown below:Note that the Linux data disk is read-only at this time. To perform read and write operations on the data disk as you do on a Windows data disk, back up your needed files and re-format the disk into a standard Windows-supported file system. For more information, please see Data Disk Partition and Formatting of Windows CVMs.
/root/mnt
directory, right-click the file you want to copy, and select Save as shown below:
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