I recently naively thought I could remove the HD from my Philips DVD
Hard Drive recorder, copy the data over to my computer and then free up
some space.

On connecting it to my Linux machine the partition editor (gparted)
showed it as an unformatted drive.

Does anyone know if there is any way I can read this data and/or copy it
over.

I have done a Google search on various keywords to no avail.

Geoff Lane