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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...
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.
The external drive wouldn't be formatted as btrfs. It might be ext, but you could reformat it as NTFS and drag/drop the data from the NAS to the external USB drive. It's possible this might crash (as the backup does), but it is worth a try.
It is possible to read the RN102 internal drives, but you'd need to be running linux. I believe an arch LiveUSB drive supports btrfs - though I haven't tried it myself.
Thanks Steven, I forgot to mention I did try the drag and drop too, but the Readynas hangs with this too. I was hoping to attach one of the internal drives to a pc using the usb enclosure and read the info directly from it, but as you mentioned I'm not sure what to use. I saw some program from diskinternals posted when I googled it, but I'm not sure it will work. http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/features.shtml
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