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Ready Nas104 Data Dead
My Ready Nas104 is reporting Data is Dead as I pulled 2 drives out while it was online. I placed the disks back and powered it off and back on and got the message remove the inactive volumes to use ...
Unfortunately deleting the volumes was exactly the wrong step (despite the suggesting in the web ui).
Now that the volume is resyncing, there isn't much you can do - the data is lost.
You could try RAID recovery software (ReclaiMe) but the odds of getting your data back are very low.
Hi Stephen, thank you for the response, i also have the 3tb original disks that I pulled out a week ago. Disk 1, 2 and 4 is there any way that this will makemit easier? And the NAS might pick up the original volume settings?
If you pulled all those drives at the same time with power off, then you should be able to simply insert them all (just them) with power off and have access to the data when you power on. If you pulled them and the NAS ran at all between those events, it's going to take a lot more and may or may not be successful.
I'm going to go a step farther than StephenB . When you destroyed the "extra" volumes (which were parts of the original the NAS could not properly link together), you absolutely destroyed your data. There is no recovery from those drives, period.
Next time, come to the forum before you do anything. We likely could have helped you when all that was wrong is the volume was dead.,
- Thanks Sand Shark, so are you recommending i power down the NAS and put the original drives back in and remove all the x4 new ones?
Cheers
gtadevos wrote:
Thanks Sand Shark, so are you recommending i power down the NAS and put the original drives back in and remove all the x4 new ones?Yes. Then boot the NAS. If you removed all the original disks with the power off, then you should see your data (although the volume will be degraded).
If you removed the disks with the power on, then the volume might not mount. Let us know if that happens.
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