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How to access readynas nv+ partition?
Hi,
I have a hard drive that I used to use in my readynas nv+. I'd like to use that hard drive in my Windows 7 pc to transfer the data on there to another hard drive, but I can't seem to get access or mount the partition. It shows up on my disk management console, but all of the options are disabled. The hard drive is a 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS.
By the way, the reason I need to do this is because I want to reset my readynas nv+ to factory default because something went wrong when trying to expand the storage. Transferring the 1TB of files over the network is painfully slow, so I thought I could just pop in the hard drive into my PC and copy it from there.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
I have a hard drive that I used to use in my readynas nv+. I'd like to use that hard drive in my Windows 7 pc to transfer the data on there to another hard drive, but I can't seem to get access or mount the partition. It shows up on my disk management console, but all of the options are disabled. The hard drive is a 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS.
By the way, the reason I need to do this is because I want to reset my readynas nv+ to factory default because something went wrong when trying to expand the storage. Transferring the 1TB of files over the network is painfully slow, so I thought I could just pop in the hard drive into my PC and copy it from there.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
5 Replies
- How many disks were in your array? What RAID mode were you using?
- Thanks for your reply. I was using 2 hard drives using X-RAID. None of the linux file system readers could access the main partition. Unknown block size or something like that.
- Was this disk 1 or disk 2?
- I believe it's disk 2. I was using channels 3 and 4, and the hard drive on channel 3 failed. So I'm trying to access the disk on channel 4, so I think that's disk 2.
Thanks - Sounds like you'll need to power down the ReadyNAS, remove all disks (label order) and put the disk back in the ReadyNAS and recover the data that way. The far right disk is typically the parity disk and doesn't have the partition table on it.
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