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How do I access data on a Netgear Stora formatted drive?

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I have a NAS that has 2x 1TB drives in RAID 1.
The NAS has stopped responding on the network connection and I need to get some data off the drives urgently.
I understand the HDD's in this particular NAS, the Netgear Stora MS2110 are not in NTFS/FAT/EXT format etc.
Does anyone know what format they are in and can this be read from a PC, with either Windows or Linux?
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Thanks upanwar

I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit, and when I open the GUI Disk Utility it shows;

A 1.0 TB Hard Disk
Usage: RAID Component
Partition Type: Linux RAID autodetect (0xfd)

An Array
State: Not running, not enough components to start.
And of course, I cant start the Array.

Is there a way to mount this drive without using it for RAID purposes?
I gather there must be some sort of identifier on the drive that marks it as a RAID disk, can this identifier or whatever it is be removed without destroying the data.

It used to be part of a mirrored set in the NAS.
I would like to avoid using the second HDD as well as I have put that aside in case I can get my hands on another NAS.
I read this :
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1453689
Am I looking at something similar to
mdadm -A -R /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
Swapping /dev/sda1 for my device of course.
Which appears to put the RAID 1 drive in a degraded state.

I get the concept but have not had to use mdadm to create arrays before, have only used HP/IBM controller cards which make the process awfully simple.

Again, my intentions are just to get the data off this HDD, Im not worried about rebuilding the RAID given the NAS has failed.
In Netgear Stora MS2110  there is a hardware RAID not the software RAID so

mdadm -A -R /dev/md0 /dev/sda1

Will not work for you.

Could you please show us output of below given command after connecting to sata disk.

# fdisk -l
I have checked your previous comment, It seems that your NAS box have software RAID, If it is software RAID then below given article would be helpful for you.

You have to skip the LVM part.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874
Thanks to upanwar for pointing me in the right direction.
I created the RAID set and ran it with only 1 drive
mdadm -A -R /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1

Then mounted the device in a temporary directory
mount /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1

Then assigned the current user as the owner of the directories so I could read the files
chown -R user1 /recover

I can now read the sub directories from /recover.
The netgear uses a funny folder structure.
If someone else comes accross this, have a look at the subfolder '0common'.
I don't know if this is an accepted normal practice, but all my data was in there.