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Can I reuse my NAS Duo disks in my PC
Hello. I have a Netgear NAS Duo V1 with two 1Gb drives installed. I'm going to change these soon for Two 2 Gb drives as I'm running out of disk space. :( I would like to reuse the 1Gb drives ...
The Duo disk formatted for Linux will have several partitions and you will have to delete the partitions until the entire drive is "unallocated". You can then format it in NTFS and when formatted a drive letter will be assigned. From that point on, it will be recognized in "Computer". I have used disk management to delete the partitions of Linux formatted drives from a ReadyNAS many times in repurposing a drive for PC use. I did then when taking an array of 500GB drives that had been replaced with 1TB drives. The old drives, as you realize still have usable value in excess of what we would get throwing them on the market.
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