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Viewing Files on Readnynas HD's in Linux?
I'm trying to recover data from a ReadyNas Duo crash. It seems that I've got one healthy drive and one dead one.
With much help from the excellent people on this forum, I've succeeded in mounting the healthy drive on my Windows PC and can mount/access the drive using Ext2 Volume Manager.
I can see the drive fine now, but I can't find the location of my files. Since it's a Linux partition, the drive has folders like /bin, /dev, /sys, /lib, etc. I've looked through these folders but can't find any of my files, though the drive seems to be full. Any leads on which folder and subfolder to look? Also, do I need to get permission to see hidden files, etc?
I'm using Windows 7.
Thanks!!
Brian L.
With much help from the excellent people on this forum, I've succeeded in mounting the healthy drive on my Windows PC and can mount/access the drive using Ext2 Volume Manager.
I can see the drive fine now, but I can't find the location of my files. Since it's a Linux partition, the drive has folders like /bin, /dev, /sys, /lib, etc. I've looked through these folders but can't find any of my files, though the drive seems to be full. Any leads on which folder and subfolder to look? Also, do I need to get permission to see hidden files, etc?
I'm using Windows 7.
Thanks!!
Brian L.
3 Replies
- use linux reader (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/). If its an older duo, you need to recover from disk 1.
If its disk 2, then insert the drive into the duo (by itself, with the duo powered down) and power on.
You are browsing the OS partition, you need to access \c\ which is a lvm volume. - I'm trying to do the same thing but when I use Linux Reader to view the contents on my disk 1, the /c/ folder says "no recoverable files.". Does this mean I'm SOL? Disk 2 was not readable by Linux Reader but maybe that's by design with my ReadyNAS Duo.
- On the parity disk (usually disk 2) you'd expect to see the OS partition but no data partition.
On disk 1, it sounds to me like you are out of luck.
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