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BKWinePer
Jun 03, 2018Follower
Reading Netgear Readynas NV+ disk from a Windows system
My ReadyNAS NV+ just died. (Probably a failed power supply.) It is old so I decided to just replace it with a new NAS.
My question:
I want to remove the disks from the (dead) NAS and connect them through an HD dock to a Windows system so that I can read the contents.
How do I do that?
I tried to use the Ext2fsd tool to mount an ext volume to Windows (I thought the NAS disk was maybe in an Ext format) but that does not work. The Ext2fsd tool sees the parts of the old NAS disk: a small one that is "ext3", that is accessible but does not contain the data, a second small part that is labelled "raw", and a third that is big (the full disk size) and is "raw" but that I cannot access ("the volume does not contain a recognised file system").
So how do I do to read the ex-NAS disks from a Windows system?
I should perhaps add that the dead NAS was configures in Raid 1.
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