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Recovering data from a NAS hard drive

I have a Seagate NAS110 hard drive that is no longer readable in the enclosure .

I have been able to take the hard drive out of the enclosure and have connected it to my win 7 pc.

I can see the partitions listed in disk management in win7. How can I then read those partitions and recover the data?

Soulja

What file system is the nas formatted in?

David Akinsanya

It should show up automatically on your computer.... If not, there are a few options

1. Drive letter not assingned properly
Right click on 'my computer', click manage
Or just run compmgmt.msc from a command prompt or run window
Assign drive letter to the HDD if shown

2. The MBR may be corrupt,
While in computer management, try to fix the record DO NOT INITIALIZE!

3. If both options are not applicable, chances are the HDD is dead

If however, you are able to see the folders but can't access them. You may need to log in as an administrator and take ownership of the drive.

Michael Belletty

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I am presuming NAS is formatted as NTFS????

Michael Belletty

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If I right click on the data partition in disk management the only options are delete partition or help!!

noxcho

NAS is using Linux file system. So you need to boot your system from Parted Magic CD or GParted and use its File copy tools to copy out the data from this drive.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/latest/download?source=recommended

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Michael Belletty

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That is what worked for me