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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...
acmtn worked great for me.
My ReadNas Duo stopped booting, displayed a pulsing power, solid disc 1 and blinking disc 2, would not fully boot in any drive configuration, would respond to PINGS but RAIDar would list 'booting' and eventually lose the connection, FrontView was never accessible, 5 second reset did nothing, USB reset seemed to work fine but had no effect on the state. NetGear online support has been completely useless after a week of form/bot replies at 6 hour intervals, so I decided to try the VMware approach, after duplicating the drive that is. So I picked up one of these,
http://ca.startech.com/product/SATDOCK2 ... cator-Dock
Approx $60 USD, I chose this one because it doesn't require a PC connection to duplicate, avoiding any chance for the PC to attempt to mount the disc to be recovered. I also picked up as close to the same model of drive as I could then duplicated disc 1 to the new drive. This took about 4 hours for 1TB. Then using VMware Workstation 7.1 and the acmtn image I was able to mount the cloned version of the drive and access my data, without having to mess with the original drive. Some notes, some obvious perhaps,
* Ensure the drive you wish to recover the data to is FAT32, not NTFS, mounting NTFS as Read/Write is not a given in Debian
* Files over 4G will be truncated when copied without warning
* Do not attempt to write to the mounted recovery drive in anyway ( delete, rename, create files / directories, etc) you will lose the mount
Some useful commands for those with limited Linux knowledge,
* Mount a fat32 drive ( may not be sdb1, try sdb's and sdc listed under /dev/ )
mkdir /mnt/myfat32drive
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/myfat32drive -t vfat
* Copy Directory or File and Sub-Directories and show items as they copy ( verbose )
cp -R -v /mnt/lvm/backup /mnt/myfat32drive
* Find files over 4G and dump list to a file ( run from /mnt/lvm )
find -type f -size +3500M > /mnt/myfat32drive/bigfiles.txt
All in all I'm very grateful for the image. Great work, I highly suggest duplicating the drive before attempting this, if the data is valuable enough than it should be totally worth the $150 it would cost for a duplicator and a new drive.
My ReadNas Duo stopped booting, displayed a pulsing power, solid disc 1 and blinking disc 2, would not fully boot in any drive configuration, would respond to PINGS but RAIDar would list 'booting' and eventually lose the connection, FrontView was never accessible, 5 second reset did nothing, USB reset seemed to work fine but had no effect on the state. NetGear online support has been completely useless after a week of form/bot replies at 6 hour intervals, so I decided to try the VMware approach, after duplicating the drive that is. So I picked up one of these,
http://ca.startech.com/product/SATDOCK2 ... cator-Dock
Approx $60 USD, I chose this one because it doesn't require a PC connection to duplicate, avoiding any chance for the PC to attempt to mount the disc to be recovered. I also picked up as close to the same model of drive as I could then duplicated disc 1 to the new drive. This took about 4 hours for 1TB. Then using VMware Workstation 7.1 and the acmtn image I was able to mount the cloned version of the drive and access my data, without having to mess with the original drive. Some notes, some obvious perhaps,
* Ensure the drive you wish to recover the data to is FAT32, not NTFS, mounting NTFS as Read/Write is not a given in Debian
* Files over 4G will be truncated when copied without warning
* Do not attempt to write to the mounted recovery drive in anyway ( delete, rename, create files / directories, etc) you will lose the mount
Some useful commands for those with limited Linux knowledge,
* Mount a fat32 drive ( may not be sdb1, try sdb's and sdc listed under /dev/ )
mkdir /mnt/myfat32drive
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/myfat32drive -t vfat
* Copy Directory or File and Sub-Directories and show items as they copy ( verbose )
cp -R -v /mnt/lvm/backup /mnt/myfat32drive
* Find files over 4G and dump list to a file ( run from /mnt/lvm )
find -type f -size +3500M > /mnt/myfat32drive/bigfiles.txt
All in all I'm very grateful for the image. Great work, I highly suggest duplicating the drive before attempting this, if the data is valuable enough than it should be totally worth the $150 it would cost for a duplicator and a new drive.
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