Copying Files off hard drive with unkwon formating

[STRAIGHTEXHAUST]

Ok, so i have this hard drive out of a "device". It is obviously not FAT or NTFS haha. I hooked it up to my computer (running windows 7, i also have a Linux machine if i would be better off using that). I went to computer management/storage/disk management and found my drive as Disk 5, it said 149.05gb unallocated, so I went in and assigned it a drive letter but did not format! Windows now "detects it" but says it needs to be formatted. I have tried opening a prompt and doing it from there but get "make sure this is not corrupted blah blah blah". Is there a way to copy the stuff off and look at it given these conditions?

 

[STRAIGHTEXHAUST]

anyone?

 

[George Monks]

What device is it?

 

[STRAIGHTEXHAUST]

well i said "device" so ppl dont get pi$$ed not sure if we can talk about it. Its a hdd from a dvr

 

[STRAIGHTEXHAUST]

so can this be talked about on this forum?

 

[Cromewell]

You'll probably have the best chance with the linux machine, it doesn't look like the hard drive is locked in anyway.

 

[ElenaP]

You need something like R-Studio which knows a whole lot of a different filesystems. Scan the disk with it and see if it picks up some Linux filesystem.