Copy Music Library from ext3 to XFS . . . NAS?
 

I use Windows OS
I have just repaired a Hard Drive.
It has declining health.


It shows up in UFS Explorer as


HDD1: Fixed USB Easy Device (465.75 GB)
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Ext2/Ext3 Linux Partition(2.80 GB)
unknown partition (0.09 GB)
Ext2/Ext3 Linux partition (0.94 GB)
Ext2/Ext3 Linux partition (461.89 GB)


The main large partition has 3 folders
sendviddata,
PUBLIC,
lost+found


The PUBLIC folder has a big music library
I must copy all the music to
this Hard Drive:


It shows up in UFS Explorer as


HDD2: Fixed USB Easy Device drive (931.49 GB)
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SG1 XFS Partition (931.32 GB)


There are several folders that start with "0" and then
the word: albums; backups; common; db; empty; tmp; updates
Then apache, mystora and sonos


Objective:
I need to copy the music from the bad disk to the 2nd disk
So that the 2nd disk can be plugged into a NAS Tray and
resume use and work the same way.


I am a clueless Windows user. I don't know what
NAS, Redundant, Tray or XFS is. I feel i am in
an alternate universe. Will a higher being enlighten thou?

Ext2/Ext3 and XFS are just different file systems, with the same purpose as Windows FAT32 and Windows NTFS (to organize files on a hard disk).

NAS stands for Network Attached Storage. It is a box with hard drive(s) and a small controller that connects to the local network, so that the storage can be shared over the network.

There is a freeware Ext2 driver for Windows (I have used an earlier version called ext2fs.sys and it worked well). This will allow you to copy files from the repaired drive.

Copying to the XFS drive will be a little harder (I'm assuming that UFS explorer can only read file systems and cannot write to them). There used to be an XFS driver for Windows by a company called CrossMeta, but they don't appear to be around any more.

More complicated options would include running a Linux LiveCD or a virtual Linux machine or a shared Linux system such as CoLinux to do the work, but this will mean some learning how to use Linux. The advantage is that Linux can read/write to pretty much any file system.