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Apprentice

Nov 05, 2021

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How to mount a ReadyNas HDD under Win10

Hi,

I want to take a Single HDD from the ReadyNAS, no RAID, and want to mount it via USB to a Win10 PC.

I tried several programs like Ext2 Volume Manager which sees the drive but cant mount it properly or LFS from Paragon Software but this software doesnt even show the drive.

So is there any way to mount the drive? I want to transfer some data to it and then put it back into the NAS . That because the network speed to fill it up is just very slow and I dont want it to take forever.

Thx

StephenB
Nov 10, 2021
Hawk321 wrote:

Does anyone have a link to the official Win10 beta drivers ?

Can only find some open source projects : https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

The betas are these open source projects, not "official". (including https://github.com/maharmstone/winmd)

8 Replies

StephenB
Guru
Nov 05, 2021
You'll need BTRFS (and possibly MDADM). There are win10 betas for both.
- Sandshark
  Sensei
  Nov 05, 2021
  You will need MDADM. A ReadyNAS single-drive volume is a "one drive MDADM RAID1". That is, it's actually half of a redundant pair, but the NAS has been told not to complain that it's not redundant. It seems pretty clear that the reasoning is to allow expansion to actual redundancy instead of having to destroy and re-create.
  
  I've been meaning to run some experiments with the beta MDADM and BTRFS for Windows, but never seem to get to it.
  - Hawk321
    Apprentice
    Nov 06, 2021
    Would you mind to do so now and give us a how to?
    
    Had a look into it and was confused :/