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Access Hard Disk from WD NAS
Hi,
A clients WD World edition appears to have gone belly up. I have pulled out one of the drives and connected it up to my computer. Whilst i can see the drive and all the partitions i can't see the file system or assign the partitions drive letters?
I'm thinking its probably because they're some flavour of linux file system windows can't read. Is there any other options asides from a live cd of sorts?
A clients WD World edition appears to have gone belly up. I have pulled out one of the drives and connected it up to my computer. Whilst i can see the drive and all the partitions i can't see the file system or assign the partitions drive letters?
I'm thinking its probably because they're some flavour of linux file system windows can't read. Is there any other options asides from a live cd of sorts?
Have you install software to access Linux partition from Windows? Here is one http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ if you haven't.
Yes, it is Linux file system formatted RAID there normally in the boxes. How many drives were there in the box?
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two drives in a mirror
Then it is a RAID system. What is the size of each disk and what was the size of device?
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Yep - Mirror is a type of RAID....
They are 1tb disks so in the mirror = 1TB.. Not sure what this has to do with accessing the data on them??
They are 1tb disks so in the mirror = 1TB.. Not sure what this has to do with accessing the data on them??
The question was to find out if the RAID is 0 or 1. If it is RAID1 then restore is simple.
Connect the drive to working machine and boot this machine from Parted Magic 5.0 CD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/
There access this drive and copy out data from this drive.
Connect the drive to working machine and boot this machine from Parted Magic 5.0 CD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/
There access this drive and copy out data from this drive.
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OK i'm beginning to think more and more that this could have been a 0 setup, which means i might be up shit creek altogether right?
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A bit more info.
I've downloaded virtual box, and booted off parted magic. But when i try to mount the drive so i can do something with it i get
"mount: unknown file system type 'linux_raid_member'"
I was sure it was a simple mirror when i checked it a few months ago...
I've downloaded virtual box, and booted off parted magic. But when i try to mount the drive so i can do something with it i get
"mount: unknown file system type 'linux_raid_member'"
I was sure it was a simple mirror when i checked it a few months ago...
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OK here's where i'm at with this. I hooked up both the drives and tried to use the nas recovery software. I recieved a couple of "cannot divide by 0" errors. Then an error that it couldn't detect which drive was first. Then when you actually go to recover the the data it errors with not enough disks.
Problem looks more complicated. Did you leave a note to Runtime team about these errors?
Looks like you got faulty drives and the chance of recovery is very low. Always perform backup on important files even if you have mirrored disks.