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ReadyNAS NV+ v2 issue after lightning strike
I have tried scrolling the forum for answers but there is so many diff. variations so i ask my own quiestion.
Last week my house was hit by a lightning strike, which ofcourse took out all fuses and so. After resettning all fuses and so on, the result was.. tv, recievers x 2, subwoofers, digital tv recievers, computer x 2 AND my NAS did not power up. Took it all to a repairshop and the verdict on all except the nas was "burned", can't repair.. buy new. But the NAS had the ac adapter and that could be fixed... got it back home yesterday and plugged it in. BUT the relief was short lived, now the displays tells me "No network link found" and prints IP 192.168.168.168 1500. The router works and is the same as before (was unplugged, because it's getting a new location in the house), so this should not be the problem. Now i guess the ethernet port/chip is burned, but the thing is the green light on the port does blink when it tries to get out, still it doesnt and doesnt show up on the router.
So the problems.. ALL.. our pictures, files and so on.. are on that friiiikkkiinn machine.
The question..
As the NAS is "alive" can i access it somehow via USB? Probably not, so can i as of today.. september 2013 pull out the harddrives (no raid) and connect them via usb adapter or directly inside a pc and use a software i found in a thread http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ to get out the files. read somewhere that harddrives from ARM machines cant be read by anything else than the specific model? Which means that i need to buy an exactly same model to get my data? If so that sucks, I hated the machine before it went dead, and really dont want a ARM machine again..
Please give some cool new good news.
Edit:
Told myself after the posting that.. what the heck, just try the linux-reader software. So i did, but It says "Cant open disk: Volume 3 (linux RAID partition)" and that goes for all volumes. So that did not work!!
Thanks
Last week my house was hit by a lightning strike, which ofcourse took out all fuses and so. After resettning all fuses and so on, the result was.. tv, recievers x 2, subwoofers, digital tv recievers, computer x 2 AND my NAS did not power up. Took it all to a repairshop and the verdict on all except the nas was "burned", can't repair.. buy new. But the NAS had the ac adapter and that could be fixed... got it back home yesterday and plugged it in. BUT the relief was short lived, now the displays tells me "No network link found" and prints IP 192.168.168.168 1500. The router works and is the same as before (was unplugged, because it's getting a new location in the house), so this should not be the problem. Now i guess the ethernet port/chip is burned, but the thing is the green light on the port does blink when it tries to get out, still it doesnt and doesnt show up on the router.
So the problems.. ALL.. our pictures, files and so on.. are on that friiiikkkiinn machine.
The question..
As the NAS is "alive" can i access it somehow via USB? Probably not, so can i as of today.. september 2013 pull out the harddrives (no raid) and connect them via usb adapter or directly inside a pc and use a software i found in a thread http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ to get out the files. read somewhere that harddrives from ARM machines cant be read by anything else than the specific model? Which means that i need to buy an exactly same model to get my data? If so that sucks, I hated the machine before it went dead, and really dont want a ARM machine again..
Please give some cool new good news.
Edit:
Told myself after the posting that.. what the heck, just try the linux-reader software. So i did, but It says "Cant open disk: Volume 3 (linux RAID partition)" and that goes for all volumes. So that did not work!!
Thanks
12 Replies
- Please read this article to confirm if you have a v1 or v2: http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how-to-tell-whether-i-have-a-duo-v1-or-duo-v2-or-nv-v1-or-nv-v2/
- To be very correct and specific its a - Netgear ReadyNas NV+ v2 RND 4000-200EUS and fits very much with the description in your link :)
- Do you have a Linux PC? Assuming the array is fine you could mount the array using that very easily.
- well.. my first computer was a amiga 64.. grew up and got myself a pc with windows 3.0 ... so i have been stuck in Bill gates land for almost all of my computer life, so i can not say i have a linux pc, or very much experience with linux, but if it is what it takes.. I actually have a older pc that is not being used so I could install linux on that one and have a go at it.
Easy steps/tips
What linux distr. (free ofcourse) ? would/can you recommend?
Anything else needed after that, or just plug in the harddrives and find them somewhere?
Can it be that easy? besides installing and configuring a linux distr... - Any one should do. I would use Ubuntu or Debian.
If lvm2 or mdadm are not installed install them via apt-get.
Then do something like this:
# mdadm --assemble --scan
# vgscan
# vgchange -ay
# mount -o ro /dev/c/c /mnt - Thank you so much for all your help, i will try this method in a couple of weeks (need to find time) and get back with result or more n00b linux question. Thanks..
- Hi again, just a stupid quiestion.. do i need to connect all 4 harddrives at the same time or can i connect them one at the time to get a chance of getting to read them? as said before, they were installed without raid.
- Yes, in your case that should work fine.
- Okay.. So what has happend.. I just installed Unbuntu and realised that it was a very long time ago i was looking at Linux. (pulling my hair)
Also, today my replacement NAS from the insurancecompany came, a Netgear ReadyNAS RN10400.
So now, before i get even more grey hairs, i just have to pop the question. Can I take my disks from the old NV+ v2 and put them in my new RN10400 and get the data?
I almost sure i have read somewhere that this is not possible, just dont want to scan all posts in this forum again.
If not..
I have Unbuntu installed alongside Win 7 (nice solution, didnt know that was possible)
Connected the first HD via USB cabel/adapter.
Can see that it is connected via "Disk Utility"
Then i tried to change one of the disks, to see what info would appear, but Disk Utility doesnt update, and old HDD info is still there ( will soon try a reboot)
I tried some of the commands that you provided with the sudo prefix
sudo vgscan
"Found volume group "d" using metadata type lvm2
sudo vgchange -ay
"device-mapper: resume ioctl failed : invalid argument"
"unable do resume d-d (252:0)"
sudo mount -o /dev/c/c /mnt
"cant find /mnt in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"
The thing is i have no clue what i'm writing or what results i'm getting. So does anyone have a good, easy guide on how to do this, as i guess others must have been in this position. I find threads out there, but they are based on RAIDed solutions and other linux platforms, i dont have that, just installed the disks and used them as units..
My main question is still, if my new NAS can read the disks, if not, if you can redirect to a good guide on how to recover the HDDs on linux as i understand it takes a while to explain. Because I'm scared shitless to do anything to the disks that i dont know anything of.. Thanks again..
EDIT: Should might add that i bought a (one) new HDD and installed in the new NAS and this is up and running.
No. The platform is totally different, and uses btrfs as the file system, not ext.frankiev2 wrote: ...today my replacement NAS from the insurance company came, a Netgear ReadyNAS RN10400.So now, before i get even more grey hairs, i just have to pop the question. Can I take my disks from the old NV+ v2 and put them in my new RN10400 and get the data?
http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306frankiev2 wrote: ...if you can redirect to a good guide on how to recover the HDDs on linux as i understand it takes a while to explain.
Let us know how it works out.
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