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have i disabled raid properly
Hi, Through a stupid mistake while shelling to my Readynas Duo I accidentally mucked up all the file ownership on the drive. Now I cannot access it via frontview or ssh, however I can still see pa...
(a) if you simply insert your old drive into the NAS with the new drive in place, then the old drive will normally be wiped.
(b) If you power down the NAS, remove the new drive, and insert the old drive then it will attempt to boot off the new drive (which I guess you messed up).
You can use linux reader on a PC to recover files from disk 1. (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/). This requires connecting the drive to the PC and NOT formatting it.
If the original drive you have was disk 2 (the parity disk), then linux reader won't work. But I'm thinking you started with just one drive - correct?
(b) If you power down the NAS, remove the new drive, and insert the old drive then it will attempt to boot off the new drive (which I guess you messed up).
You can use linux reader on a PC to recover files from disk 1. (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/). This requires connecting the drive to the PC and NOT formatting it.
If the original drive you have was disk 2 (the parity disk), then linux reader won't work. But I'm thinking you started with just one drive - correct?
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