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Retrieving data from an ancient ReadyNas
Hi all, I have a very old ReadyNas Duo that I would like to retire, but I urgently need to remove and safeguard the data from it. It will boot and the device is visible on the network, but I cannot ...
When was the last time you accessed the NAS?
PeterD2 wrote:
I have a very old ReadyNas Duo that I would like to retire, but I urgently need to remove and safeguard the data from it. It will boot and the device is visible on the network, but I cannot access it via Windows 11 in any manner.
Go into "turn windows features on or off" on the PC, and enable the SMB 1.0/CIFS client there. That should restore access.
You might also need to use the NAS admin credentials to connect to the shares - do you know that those are?
PeterD2 wrote:
Is there any way to mount these under Windows directly, or any way to be able to simply copy/paste the folders and files onto an external hard drive? I'm not interested in writing to the NAS again, just one, final read and that'll be that for it.
If you can connect disk 1 on the NAS to your PC (using either SATA or a usb adapter/dock) then you can access the files using a freeware package called R-Linux for Windows.
Windows won't mount the disk, but the software should find it. Be careful not to format the disk when you connect it to the PC
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