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[ronpatrick1973]

Is it possible to take a hard drive formated as JBOD out of ReadyNas and connect to Windows 10 laptop via SATA to USB adapter?  If so how?

When I connect my drive I see it in Disk Management but cannot open any of the 3 volumes to see/copy its contents.

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

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@ronpatrick1973 wrote:

Is it possible to take a hard drive formated as JBOD out of ReadyNas and connect to Windows 10 laptop via SATA to USB adapter?  If so how?

The data volume uses the BTRFS file system on a software RAID partition, which is not supported by Windows.

There is a BTRFS for windows package available from Paragon that you could try.  I don't know if it can handle the software RAID partition though.

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

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@ronpatrick1973 wrote:

Is it possible to take a hard drive formated as JBOD out of ReadyNas and connect to Windows 10 laptop via SATA to USB adapter?  If so how?

The data volume uses the BTRFS file system on a software RAID partition, which is not supported by Windows.

There is a BTRFS for windows package available from Paragon that you could try.  I don't know if it can handle the software RAID partition though.

[ronpatrick1973]

Your suggestion worked!  Life saver!  I downloaded MKBTRFS from GitHub and also WinMD.  Rebooted laptop, drives showed up.

Thanks again!

[Sandshark]

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@ronpatrick1973 wrote:

 I downloaded MKBTRFS from GitHub and also WinMD.  Rebooted laptop, drives showed up.

I'm glad somebody tried that.  It was on my list of things to do.  Unfortunately, neither supports a damaged volume, AFAIK (I remember the documentation on one expressly stating it does not), so that limits use to data recovery from broken hardware where the volume has not been damaged.  But, still, it's something. 

My understanding is that the next generation of the Linux subsystem for Windows will have a real Linux kernel, so maybe even more will be possible in the near future.