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Seagate NAS110 Single Drive Hard Drive Failure

I have a Seagate NAS110 Drive which has stopped working. I am presuming it is the networking side of the drive that has stopped working and mechanically the drive is OK. The client has some data on the drive they want to try and recover. Most of the data has been backed up but we found the last 2 weeks the backup system was not working properly.

Has anyone successfully recovered data from these drives when they take them out of the enclosure? If so what tools did you use to recover from them?

rindi

Many NAS are setup to use some form of RAID, and that complicates things. Does your NAS have more than one disks?

If not, you can try removing the disk from the NAS, and attaching it to an internal SATA port of a PC. Then boot the PC using a Linux Live Distro like PCRepix, as most NAS use a Linux or BSD as OS and the file-system on the disks won't be recognizable by Windows. You can then try viewing the data on the disk and copying it off.

http://pcrepix.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcrepix/files/?source=navbar

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Michael Belletty

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For some reason the pcrepix Software would not recognise the Hard Drive I needed to recover. But as soon as I installed and ran GDB NAS Recovery, it did.

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