I started getting the error " Windows cannot access" a few weeks ago and I couldn't log in to the web interface so I did an OS install to set the admin password back to factory. Is there any way to get the data back?
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I started getting the error " Windows cannot access" a few weeks ago and I couldn't log in to the web interface so I did an OS install to set the admin password back to factory. Is there any way to get the data back?
Did you do an OS reinstall? Or did you do a factory default?
The OS reinstall should not have affected your data. The factory default would have reformatted the drives. It's conceivable that RAID recovery software that supports BTRFS might be able to recover something - not sure.
It was an OS install. What would be the best software to buy to try and get the data back. I took the drives out of the NAS an put them in an HP that’s running Windows 10 Pro but I’m not sure which software to buy.
So one potentially failing disk at least. Those ATA errors might be masking the issue with the volume, but I suspect it is inactive (can't be mounted because it is out of sync)..
If you download the log zip file, I could take a look - or you can ask the mods ( @Marc_V and @JeraldM ) to analyze them if you prefer.
You'd need to put the zip file in cloud storage, and send a download link in a PM (private message). You send a PM using the envelope link in the upper right hand corner of the forum page. Don't post the link publicly, as there is some privacy leakage when you do that.
Alternatively, just try ReclaiMe - you should be able to download it for free, and see what it finds. You'd need to purchase to recover, and you will need storage to copy the files onto.
I tried to download the LOG files before in a previous message but there was nothing listed in them - see attached. I have all 4 disks attached to an HP ProLiant and running the ReclaiMe software and it has passed several screens but has been on SAMPLING: 1st PASS for a while (3 hours). I can hear DISK 2 clicking as it's checking it and I guess that's the hold up.
Someone said in a previous post that I may not need to use ReclaiMe on the drives that there may be another way to get the data back.
I disconnected DISK 2 and it did speed up the process but I got this error (See attched). I was pretty sure that it was RAID 5 but this seems like it wasn't.
I disconnected DISK 2 and it did speed up the process but I got this error (See attched). I was pretty sure that it was RAID 5 but this seems like it wasn't.
I'm a bit confused on DISK 2, since the screenshot says DISK 3 is not selected.
If you have (or purchase) another 3 TB drive, you could try cloning the disk - using software that does sector by sector copying. There are several free packages that will work. That likely will take a while, and could result in the disk totally failing. But cloning is often less stressful than the RAID Recovery.
I numbered the drives as I took them out of the ReadyNAS and it was DISK 2. I guess it's is showing up in the ReclaiMe software as DISK 3 because of how they were connected to the SATA bus.
I numbered the drives as I took them out of the ReadyNAS and it was DISK 2. I guess it's is showing up in the ReclaiMe software as DISK 3 because of how they were connected to the SATA bus.
Ok.
Taking the error message at face value: Cloning the clicking disk is probably the best option - hopefully it won't fail while you are doing that.
Note that if you are running RAID-0, then removing any disk would have produced this error very quickly. So while the evidence points to disk 2 (disks aren't supposed to click), it is conceivable that errors on another disk are actually creating the problem.
