How to read a linux ext4 harddrive with a mac

[McNicholas]

Hey there, I'm having major issues, well kind of.

I have a seagate central network harddrive that has an ethernet port that stopped working. So, instead of taking it to a shop I'd like to try to fix by myself but its not going very well.

I took the harddrive out of the seagate cage, but seagate said I would need a linux reader.
I dont have a computer only a macbook pro, so I took one of my harddrives out of an external that I have and put the seagate harddrive into it, then downloaded a trial version of Exts Paragon for mac, which is supposed to read linux harddrives.
So, after doing this, a bunch of drives pop up, each around a gb, but they seem to be the operating folders for the seagate harddrive, not my data. My data on the seagate harddrive is a couple hundred GB.

Basically I am not able to access or see my data on the seagate drive.

If anyone has insight, plllllleeeaaassseee.

Thank you.

 

[voyagerfan99]

What format was the hard drive? FAT32? NTFS? You shouldn't need anything Linux related to read your external unless it was actually formatted with a Linux file system?

 

[McNicholas]

The seagate central harddrive is formatted in ext4 linux, or at least thats what the seagate person told me. my other external harddrive I am not sure what its formmated in, its definately not linux though, I am guessing ntfs.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Oh, der. I wasn't paying attention.

You could always create a linux bootable USB with Ubuntu or something and boot to that, then attach and copy the data on your external that way to another drive.

 

[Cromewell]

Looks like most people read extfs via fuse. https://osxfuse.github.io/

http://osxdaily.com/2014/03/20/mount-ext-linux-file-system-mac/

 

[McNicholas]

thanks guys,

So just an update in case anyone cares. I checked out the linux readers and were good suggestions, thank you. Before i used them, I took the harddrive into a computer shop, they plugged it in and told me its fried.
I probably will not pay to have the data recovered as I was able to find my pictures and videos in a backup hd, and it was only 150gb of music I lost, still sucks but I could probably buy new music for cheaper than it would cost to recover it from the HD.

Thanks for your suggestions.