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dekkit
Nov 10, 2009Aspirant
ReadyNAS Data Recovery - VMware recovery tool
Description This topic contains links to linux VMware images (Debian / Ubuntu) that have been modified to enable you to access your ReadyNAS duo HDDs from any machine with a USB plug and a SATA to US...
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 17, 2010NETGEAR Employee Retired
marmat78 wrote:
Can I now conclude my Seagate 1TB is in fact completely broken?
How did it go when you ran SeaTools on it? See faq.php#How_can_I_verify_that_my_disk_is_bad%3F
If a disk is bad, you are not going to be able to recover the dat using the VMWare Recovery Tool. The Tool is only really useful for a rare situation where your ReadyNas chassis fails, you can't/don't want to get a replacement chassis and you wish to recover data from disks that are all fine.
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