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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...
I would also like to add my experience with a failed Duo to this forum.
I was given a ReadyNAS Duo by my business partner. He said it had failed, he couldn't read the discs and one was probably not OK.
Couldn't get the Duo to work on another drive until I swapped the memory over. Two discs also seems problematical, although it is a little hard to tell - The duo isn't very talkative on how it is getting on :-)
I did notice the fan altered speed when the discs were accessed, so I am wondering about the power supply.
I will be talking to Netgear to see if they can help, although it is out of warranty - perhaps it is in the duff batch.
I then installed the linux image and VM, which installed and worked really well, except it couldn't see a partition.
data recovery by easeus also didn't work, but took a very long time. (I had purchased a full copy previously)
I then tried easeus partition manager/recovery - which was free and it found a NTFS partiton left over from a previous use in a PC and two deleted EXT3 partitions - one small at the front of the disk and obviously a linux instal, and the other was large and looked full of Appley files.
I think the NTFS partition records confused the data recovery software . Anyway it took 30 minutes to rebuild the large EXT3 partition, and then Sysinternals Linux Reader happily read it and offered to copy the files.
Extracted one of the video files and it seems to be fine, so I have left the owner to move the files he wants off the drive - mainly unedited holiday video footage.
So Consider the possibility the partion is there - just the records of it are gone, and that new software might make life easy.
Hope this helps
I was given a ReadyNAS Duo by my business partner. He said it had failed, he couldn't read the discs and one was probably not OK.
Couldn't get the Duo to work on another drive until I swapped the memory over. Two discs also seems problematical, although it is a little hard to tell - The duo isn't very talkative on how it is getting on :-)
I did notice the fan altered speed when the discs were accessed, so I am wondering about the power supply.
I will be talking to Netgear to see if they can help, although it is out of warranty - perhaps it is in the duff batch.
I then installed the linux image and VM, which installed and worked really well, except it couldn't see a partition.
data recovery by easeus also didn't work, but took a very long time. (I had purchased a full copy previously)
I then tried easeus partition manager/recovery - which was free and it found a NTFS partiton left over from a previous use in a PC and two deleted EXT3 partitions - one small at the front of the disk and obviously a linux instal, and the other was large and looked full of Appley files.
I think the NTFS partition records confused the data recovery software . Anyway it took 30 minutes to rebuild the large EXT3 partition, and then Sysinternals Linux Reader happily read it and offered to copy the files.
Extracted one of the video files and it seems to be fine, so I have left the owner to move the files he wants off the drive - mainly unedited holiday video footage.
So Consider the possibility the partion is there - just the records of it are gone, and that new software might make life easy.
Hope this helps
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