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Stora died and want to recover data
Hi All, I have a Netgear Stora (not sure of model number) that died and will no longer power on. Fan turns on but that is all. I managed to get my hands on a used Stora that is working and wante...
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After April 01, 2020 The Stora cloud service ended so transferring the drives to a working Stora will not work since you need to access mystora.com to setup and access data. You may have to recover the data using another option, here is one option.I found a few post getting success doing this procedure but you may need a PC running Ubuntu.
Another option is to use 3rd party applications like R-Studio. Users who perform recovery might be able to chime in and help.
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Marc_V wrote:
Another option is to use 3rd party applications like R-Studio.
Unfortunately, R-Studio doesn't support XFS.
ReclaiMe does, but is considerably more expensive.
StephenB wrote:
Marc_V wrote:Another option is to use 3rd party applications like R-Studio.
Unfortunately, R-Studio doesn't support XFS.
ReclaiMe does, but is considerably more expensive.
Power ISO also claims to do so, but I've not used it for that. I suspect it's capability is limited in the trial version. https://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/access-xfs-partitions-from-windows.htm .
i just come back tosay thankyou.You saved my 3000 pictures stored in 2 disk in JBOD in Stora. It was a bit tricky but bootable USB with Ubuntu helps.
Hopefully, you've learned from this that backup is essential. Luckily, it wasn't essential this time. For photos, most find cloud storage to be the best backup option. For video and other large files where online storage would get expensive, a second local device is often used.
Had it been one of the drives that failed, the files would have been irrecoverable. Even with RAID, failures can happen that cause data loss.
There is an old IT saying: If you only have one copy of something, you must not think it's very important.
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