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Mattwood
Sep 30, 2017Aspirant
how to add a used drive from my pc
Hi i have a RN10200 can i put a hdd in a bay from my pc (as i need to rescue files from it) into the ReadyNAS without formatting it? so i can get to my files?
StephenB
Oct 02, 2017Guru - Experienced User
Mattwood wrote:
Hi i have a RN10200 can i put a hdd in a bay from my pc (as i need to rescue files from it) into the ReadyNAS without formatting it?
so i can get to my files?
You can connect it to the PC, but the PC doesn't support the btrfs file system. Some here have had good luck with ReclaiMe recovery software. You could also try booting up the PC with linux.
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