Rescuing data from a dead linux drive

[volcs0]

A good friend of mine just had his hard drive fail He was running Ubuntu linux. It is a SATA drive.

I got him up and running again with a new drive and new install, but want to try to rescue some data from the disc (which would no longer "mount").

I have a hunch that we can get at the data, but I only have experience rescuing "regular" hard drives.

If I take this SATA drive and put it into my mac or PC box (both of which have SATA), will I be able to mount the drive? I don't have a SATA case or an adaptor thingy.

If I put the drive back into his PC and boot from the new Ubuntu install, would it be straightforward to mount the drive and rescue data?

I just don't have a lot of experience with linux systems - mount points, etc.

Any other advice about mounting and getting data off of this drive? ISD here has been unhelpful.

Thanks.

sam

[rz]

do you happen to know what format the drive was in? I'm guessing UFS. If that's the case, I wouldn't know what to tell you.

[volcs0]

I don't know. Whatever format Ubuntu chooses automatically. I am gooling around...

[MacMagus]

If it's EXT2 or EXT3, it's potentially readable under 10.3...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/

There's also an EXT2 driver for Windows.
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html