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Revert New Volume creation
Hello Community, I accidentally created a new volume through the admin web portal on a HDD that was part of my ReadyNAS, and now I can't access the files stored on that HDD anymore. ReadyNAS model...
reyii wrote:
no RAID, this was a HDD formatted on another systems and was a NTFS regular partition on it.
ReadyNAS saw it initially as a disk that needed a new partition, or didn't quite understood what was there and presented it like a HDD that needs formatting. I only clicked on "new volume" and seem like ReadyNAS wrote that on it, now I can't see the data when I put the disk on the other Linux/Windows Server.
What happened is expected behavior, the NAS always destroys the disk content when create a volume.
You could try NTFS data recovery software, and see if it can get the data back.
Can you give some more detals on what you did?
- Did you originally have a RAID-1 (mirrored) volume?
- Or did you destroy a jbod volume that was on the disk before?
- Or something else?
no RAID, this was a HDD formatted on another systems and was a NTFS regular partition on it.
ReadyNAS saw it initially as a disk that needed a new partition, or didn't quite understood what was there and presented it like a HDD that needs formatting. I only clicked on "new volume" and seem like ReadyNAS wrote that on it, now I can't see the data when I put the disk on the other Linux/Windows Server.
reyii wrote:
no RAID, this was a HDD formatted on another systems and was a NTFS regular partition on it.
ReadyNAS saw it initially as a disk that needed a new partition, or didn't quite understood what was there and presented it like a HDD that needs formatting. I only clicked on "new volume" and seem like ReadyNAS wrote that on it, now I can't see the data when I put the disk on the other Linux/Windows Server.
What happened is expected behavior, the NAS always destroys the disk content when create a volume.
You could try NTFS data recovery software, and see if it can get the data back.
I have no experience using NTFS recovery products, could you name a couple good options ?
thank you for taking the time to help Stephen 😃
reyii wrote:
I have no experience using NTFS recovery products, could you name a couple good options ?
I don't have any recent experience either, so hopefully others will chime in.
Most of them seem to have a free download, so you can see what can be recovered before paying.
A couple I see (not recommendations, just google search results) are
- https://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizardpro/
- https://www.cleverfiles.com/data-recovery-software.html
- https://dmde.com/
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