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Can't access NAS - password fail - and not showing up on TV
Hi all, Firstly, thanks for any help you might be able to give me. Mods - please move this if it needs to be in a different forum, I looked, but I couldn't work out which it needed to be in, it d...
Thanks Stephen,
I'm running Win 8.1 - in case that makes a difference :)
It sounds like I really should have got the 4-bay system, damn. Still, as you say, I could RAID two of them, then maybe just use that for the data I really want (the stuff I keep having to re-dl every time I lose my data! lol)
Biggest issue is that, while I'm not completely dense, I'm not as computer-literate with these types of things as I'd like to be. Wouldn't it be delightful if you could see what the hell was going on here and wave your magic wand over it? :)
Hey, a totally unrelated - but not really - question - The 2-bay NAS I had that died in the lighting strike had two 2TB drives in it, and the computer techs at Computer Alliance (a big computer shop here in BNE) looked at them, and said that because they were RAID-0 and it was an old NAS - the data couldn't be accessed, even though the drives themselves were fine, and still ran. Is this true? Do you think if someone else has the same NAS system they could just put my drives into it and voilois the data would be see-able? It'd be a PITA to get the 4Tb of data back! The shop suggested it get sent to a data recovery agent, and I *think* my insurance will foot the bill for it, but, how in heck would they be able to do it without use of another NAS?
I'll go play with the system and see what I can do. If you can think of anything else, please let me know. :D
I'm running Win 8.1 - in case that makes a difference :)
It sounds like I really should have got the 4-bay system, damn. Still, as you say, I could RAID two of them, then maybe just use that for the data I really want (the stuff I keep having to re-dl every time I lose my data! lol)
Biggest issue is that, while I'm not completely dense, I'm not as computer-literate with these types of things as I'd like to be. Wouldn't it be delightful if you could see what the hell was going on here and wave your magic wand over it? :)
Hey, a totally unrelated - but not really - question - The 2-bay NAS I had that died in the lighting strike had two 2TB drives in it, and the computer techs at Computer Alliance (a big computer shop here in BNE) looked at them, and said that because they were RAID-0 and it was an old NAS - the data couldn't be accessed, even though the drives themselves were fine, and still ran. Is this true? Do you think if someone else has the same NAS system they could just put my drives into it and voilois the data would be see-able? It'd be a PITA to get the 4Tb of data back! The shop suggested it get sent to a data recovery agent, and I *think* my insurance will foot the bill for it, but, how in heck would they be able to do it without use of another NAS?
I'll go play with the system and see what I can do. If you can think of anything else, please let me know. :D
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