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RN314 - Possible to access data from drive from another PC without first reformatting it?
I have a desktop that has experienced a motherboard issue, in the meantime, I'm using my laptop. The desktop has a 4 TB drive that is about half full, and an 8 TB drive that has backups on it, bo...
SFBear wrote:
I want to put at least the 4 TB into the NAS, but the manual leads me to believe that it will forcibly reformat the drive, preventing me from accessing the data.
Indeed, it will. The NAS doesn't use a Windows filesystem, and it also needs to repartition the disk. So you will lose data if you try to connect it to the NAS.
You'll need a USB/SATA adapter or perhaps an enclosure.
SFBear wrote:
I want to put at least the 4 TB into the NAS, but the manual leads me to believe that it will forcibly reformat the drive, preventing me from accessing the data.
Indeed, it will. The NAS doesn't use a Windows filesystem, and it also needs to repartition the disk. So you will lose data if you try to connect it to the NAS.
You'll need a USB/SATA adapter or perhaps an enclosure.
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