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Bad disks detected and blinking blue LED
Hi, I have the ReadyNas Duo with 2 off 2TB WD Green Caviar drives. This is setup as a mirror. The problem started when the fusebox tripped in the house and the NAS lost power. When I switched the N...
Hello Daz:
Your case seems alike mine: I have a rack unit NAS with 3 disks bad and 1 disk O.K.
The behavior on the leds and the FrontView access is similar, and I can share with you that through another LINUX distribution I managed to recover 2 of the 3 dead disks; the distribution is the Knoppix Linux that also offers a Live CD pretty alike Ubuntu; the main difference is the program "dd_rescue" that is powerful and dangerous but seems to me that you can work it out to give a try to your HDD.
Better than redirect your attention to my post nor my comments (we do have different NAS boxes) I better invite you to search the forum for "dd_rescue" because there are good posts about, and I just not wish to mislead you as I'm just a final user, not an expert, but indeed after more than 40 hours a piece that dd_rescue program recover a couple of 1TB Barracudas 97% full for me, and shown only data damaged by 2%, for that reason I think it might giving a try as I did.
I wish you success in this "Jedi affairs" like this participative forum stands for :-)
Your case seems alike mine: I have a rack unit NAS with 3 disks bad and 1 disk O.K.
The behavior on the leds and the FrontView access is similar, and I can share with you that through another LINUX distribution I managed to recover 2 of the 3 dead disks; the distribution is the Knoppix Linux that also offers a Live CD pretty alike Ubuntu; the main difference is the program "dd_rescue" that is powerful and dangerous but seems to me that you can work it out to give a try to your HDD.
Better than redirect your attention to my post nor my comments (we do have different NAS boxes) I better invite you to search the forum for "dd_rescue" because there are good posts about, and I just not wish to mislead you as I'm just a final user, not an expert, but indeed after more than 40 hours a piece that dd_rescue program recover a couple of 1TB Barracudas 97% full for me, and shown only data damaged by 2%, for that reason I think it might giving a try as I did.
I wish you success in this "Jedi affairs" like this participative forum stands for :-)
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