I am having trouble rescueing data from potentially dying hard drive (laptop Windows 7, not booting) previous attempts have resulted in the copied files substantially exceeding their original file sizes, so that not all files fitted onto the external drives. could the reason be that the external drive needs to be partitioned?
or is it a problem that I deleted the software pre-installed on the external drives?
sorry for the probable naivety of my questions, but I'm not really a techie and with virtually no experience regarding linux.
Ta very much for any constructive hints & suggestions