I recently installed Zorin for a parent on their aging mini PC, and it was fine for a few months, but the PC unexpected died this weekend (just no power to it at all, completely unresponsive).
I pulled the drive out (a small, 1/2 size mSATA - probably 7 years old) and using an adapter to turn it in to a USB device plugged it in to a Windows machine to try and extract some files, but though it does show up in Disk Management, not as a drive automatically.
Anyone had to do something similar? Any suggestions? Would it likely work / be accessible plugged in to another Zorin PC?
(Appreciate this isn't a Windows support forum...)
I assume the files you wish to extract are in a EXT4 formatted partition, as used by ZorinOS (or Linux). That could explain not seen by Windows.
If you can find another ZorinOS or Ubuntu machine, you could try using that.
Others here may offer additional disaster recovery advice, so watch this space.
Like @zabadabadoo wrote it could be because of the ext4 File Format. But I would have an Idea. Plug the Drive to Your PC. Then take a Boot Stick with Zorin on it and start it and choose the Option ''Try Zorin'' to get in Live Mode. And from this try to access the Drive.