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walliesss
Jul 13, 2017Follower
Recover data from broken readynas
Hi all, i have a readynas rnd4000V3, with 2 western digital drives. (looks like netgear doesn't know they made it since it not in there product listings..) Looks like the thing is broken, PSU r...
StephenB
Jul 13, 2017Guru - Experienced User
walliesss wrote:
Hi all,
i have a readynas rnd4000V3, with 2 western digital drives. (looks like netgear doesn't know they made it since it not in there product listings..)
What you have is hardware revision three of a NV+ v1 (sparc-based platform).
walliesss wrote:
I bought a new RN21200-100NES NETGEAR ReadyNAS 212, but when i placed the old drives in, it said it needed to format the file system before he could do something with it.
You can't migrate the disks directly - the RN212 is very different (running OS6 and BTRFS).
You can try connecting disk 1 to a windows PC and then using rlinux for windows to get the data off ( http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/ ), and then offload the data to other storage.
Another option (which likely require a support payment) is here: https://kb.netgear.com/29876/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-1-or-RAIDiator-5-3-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6
Either way you need to copy the data off, then restore it after you install them in the new ReadyNAS.
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