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Disk Failure- best practice advice
It looks like I have a disk failure. Can anyone advise the best path here? I have taken both disks out and put them in a USB drive, and it appears that neither have any retreivable data on them. I...
Did you try booting up the NAS w/o disk 1 (just disk 2 in slot 2)?
The v1s have data disks and partity disks. On the duo, the data disk is disk 1, but not always.
Windows of course cannot read linux file systems. Linux Reader is a tool that can read v1's data disk (but not the parity disk). Might be worth a try, but the screens you posted are suggesting its a long shot.
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
Netgear also offers a data recovery service, and they can investigate remotely (for a fee).
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the response, I have tried that now and it didn't give me much. I don't think it was happy with only one disk becaause the channel parameter is blank here now.
What I was tyrying to use to read the filesystem was in fact seagate's recovery software which even though it was installed on Windows, I think is doing a lower level operation to read the data segments.
Thanks again, but it looks like I'm outa luck. Won't bother with a raid again, I think I'll just rather work with a single disk and an external backup. Live & Learn.
Regards,
Greg
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