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NV+ factory reset
I have made a giant mistake. Here's what happened: I forgot my password to enter the frontview of my NAS, so i tried password reset. Appears i never set the thing, so next option was a factory reset...
Hi all.
My drives were corrupted by repeated bad powerdowns caused by a bad UPS. Bad situation. As a result I have had some experience with recovery software. EaseUS® Data Recovery Wizard is an excellent piece of software and, in the past, worked very well on Windows (NTFS) formatted drives. It also was able recover a ton of files from my EXT3 formatted ReadyNAS Dou v2 drive. However, they are in RAW state. This means that they are identifiable as a file of a particular type, but they are named in a serial fashion (not the original names). Some image files are striped (not a complete recovery, but close). This is fine if you can bear with renaming everything and cropping a few images. It is surely better than nothing! Also, even though it lists AVCHD files (.mts, .mt2, etc) as a file type in the menu, it did not recover ANY files of this type. These video files occupied the majority of space on my drive. There are other video files (.avi, .mov,. m4v, .mpeg, etc) that it did recover, and there is a chance that it just pulled the AVCHD "wrapper" off of the video files and .m4v files remained. In any case, I was not satisfied with this result.
Since then I tried DiskInternals' free program called, DiskInternals Linux Recovery; http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-recovery/
I did a test with it, letting it run for about three hours. I stopped it and it showed me what it had accomplished. It had mapped out a whole host of files, with file type and names intact, including many AVCHD files (extensions M2TS, MTS and M2T). I have run into one issue which may be mine only... I have let it run over the entire partition twice (around 18 hours for a 1TB drive) and both times it gets hung up at about 85% complete. When I force close the application I lose the scan information. I am hoping that I can get it to go through the disk or, that I can stop it just before it hangs next time.
Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes for you.
Peace-
My drives were corrupted by repeated bad powerdowns caused by a bad UPS. Bad situation. As a result I have had some experience with recovery software. EaseUS® Data Recovery Wizard is an excellent piece of software and, in the past, worked very well on Windows (NTFS) formatted drives. It also was able recover a ton of files from my EXT3 formatted ReadyNAS Dou v2 drive. However, they are in RAW state. This means that they are identifiable as a file of a particular type, but they are named in a serial fashion (not the original names). Some image files are striped (not a complete recovery, but close). This is fine if you can bear with renaming everything and cropping a few images. It is surely better than nothing! Also, even though it lists AVCHD files (.mts, .mt2, etc) as a file type in the menu, it did not recover ANY files of this type. These video files occupied the majority of space on my drive. There are other video files (.avi, .mov,. m4v, .mpeg, etc) that it did recover, and there is a chance that it just pulled the AVCHD "wrapper" off of the video files and .m4v files remained. In any case, I was not satisfied with this result.
Since then I tried DiskInternals' free program called, DiskInternals Linux Recovery; http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-recovery/
I did a test with it, letting it run for about three hours. I stopped it and it showed me what it had accomplished. It had mapped out a whole host of files, with file type and names intact, including many AVCHD files (extensions M2TS, MTS and M2T). I have run into one issue which may be mine only... I have let it run over the entire partition twice (around 18 hours for a 1TB drive) and both times it gets hung up at about 85% complete. When I force close the application I lose the scan information. I am hoping that I can get it to go through the disk or, that I can stop it just before it hangs next time.
Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes for you.
Peace-
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