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Aspirant

Jan 03, 2016

ReadyNas Duo V1 (Sparc) dead disk recovery

I've got a dead disk (1 TB Seagate) from my ReadyNas Duo V1 system, has been disk one, got more and more errors, went dead, couldn't start the NAS up, Frontview didn't couldn't recognize it, it would...

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DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 03, 2016

Hi Lause67,

Welcome to the community! :)

You may want to try to clone the faulty disk 1 to a new drive. I have not yet tried Disk Cloning however, it might help.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Jan 03, 2016

If you were running raid-1 (or xraid) you could try booting with only disk 2 installed.

Linux reader will read a healthy data disk in a duo v1 ( http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ ) However, your drive isn't healthy, and might not be readable at all.

I suspect cloning won't be possible either, but it is perhaps worth a try. You'd need a cloning program that does sector-by-sector copying.

Lause67
Aspirant
Jan 03, 2016
I've been googleing Seatools (found Seagate USB External drive diagnostics) and it says: "Be sure the drive is connected directly to the computer using a USB port, not using a docking station or hub" - does this mean, I have to connect the drive directly via SATA to USB cable, rather than putting it in a housing for external drives and connect this to USB?
- Sandshark
  Sensei
  Jan 03, 2016
  No, it means not to use a USB hub. But I think that's manly for drives that are powered by the USB where the hub may be overtaxed. A USB housing or docking station with a separate power supply and connected directly to the computer USB port will work fine for all but a couple of the advanced tests. You do want "Seatools", not something specific for Seagate-branded USB drives only.
  - Lause67
    Aspirant
    Jan 05, 2016
    Didn't work, so I have to assume the drive is dead. Only way is data recovery service, i guess...
    
    But thanks for your help. And now I have to decide if I want to keep the V1 or browse for a newer one. I don't have any commercial use for it, so it doesn't have to be the newest one, a used, cheap one will do it - it just should be a little easyer to handle with newer software and services than the V1. Any suggestions?