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I accidentally created a new volume through the admin web portal on a HDD that was part of my ReadyNAS, and now I can't access the files stored on that HDD anymore.
ReadyNAS model 214, OS version 6.10.8
Can I revert those changes made when I clicked "create a new volume"? I'm hoping that will restore the original structure and give me access to the files again.
SATA 8TiB Disk is the one affected. See screenshot attached.
no RAID, this was a HDD formatted on another systems and was a NTFS regular partition on it.
ReadyNAS saw it initially as a disk that needed a new partition, or didn't quite understood what was there and presented it like a HDD that needs formatting. I only clicked on "new volume" and seem like ReadyNAS wrote that on it, now I can't see the data when I put the disk on the other Linux/Windows Server.
What happened is expected behavior, the NAS always destroys the disk content when create a volume.
You could try NTFS data recovery software, and see if it can get the data back.
no RAID, this was a HDD formatted on another systems and was a NTFS regular partition on it.
ReadyNAS saw it initially as a disk that needed a new partition, or didn't quite understood what was there and presented it like a HDD that needs formatting. I only clicked on "new volume" and seem like ReadyNAS wrote that on it, now I can't see the data when I put the disk on the other Linux/Windows Server.
no RAID, this was a HDD formatted on another systems and was a NTFS regular partition on it.
ReadyNAS saw it initially as a disk that needed a new partition, or didn't quite understood what was there and presented it like a HDD that needs formatting. I only clicked on "new volume" and seem like ReadyNAS wrote that on it, now I can't see the data when I put the disk on the other Linux/Windows Server.
What happened is expected behavior, the NAS always destroys the disk content when create a volume.
You could try NTFS data recovery software, and see if it can get the data back.
FYI, you cannot put a drive containing files from some other type of unit into a ReadyNAS and access the files. That's why you were presented with that option. The prompt should have let you know you were destroying any existing files.
I didn't had to click "destroy" the volume. There was an option to create a "new volume" and I took the risk and click it hoping I was going to access the files, but there was no warning or message sadly for me. The GUI should've warned me, I lost many years of history. Now I'm using https://dmde.com/ trying to recover as much as possible. I learned the hard way 😞
You weren't destroying a volume. The drive contained no volume the NAS recognized. So, you were creating a new volume. But the pop-up for volume creation does normally warn that the action will destroy, overwrite, or some words to that effect, any existing data. The manual most certainly also warns of that.
Yep, you took a huge risk and lost. In the future, if the prompts and/or manual are unclear, come here before you make what could be a bad choice and we can help you make the right one.
At least you created a new volume instead of adding it to a RAID. That would have completely overwritten the drive.
