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swope1221
Aspirant
Oct 20, 2015

read readynas volume using usb port windows 10

HI everyone, my readynas 102 is having some issues, and I want to reset it to factory defaults.  I have tried to back up the data to an external usb 3.0 drive, but the backup crashes and never finish...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 20, 2015

Have you tried connecting the USB drive to the PC, and using drag/drop to copy the data?  Or use teracopy (which can verify).

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swope1221
Aspirant
Oct 20, 2015

Hi Stephen, I have, but I believe the drives are formatted inside the readynas such that they are not readable by just plugging into a usb port on a pc.  I believe the are formatted btrfs, which windows can't natively read.  I didn't know if there was a program I could download to windows so I can plug in and read the data from the network drives, in the same way I plug in a thumb drive and it reads it.  

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