Data recovery, after failed disk

[zedem]

So far,

• I had trouble accessing the web interface of my ReadyNAS, one of the disks had failed
• tried an OS reinstall this didn't work.
• I had RAID set up on my NAS before it stoped working 
• I have taken out the one good disk and put it in a disk caddy, however in windows disk management comes up as unallocated.

Any ideas on how I can get my data of the one good disk? Don't really want to buy a new disk and try and get the RAID to rebuild, don't really think this will work anyway as the ReadyNAS doesn't seem to be co-operating.

[StephenB]

Was this running 4.1.x firmware (a sparc-based duo)?

[zedem]

Really not sure, had not logged onto interface in sometime. Is there a way to check?

[mdgm-ntgr]

In that case you could read How to tell whether I have a Duo v1 or Duo v2 or NV+ v1 or NV+ v2

There is a Duo v1 on your profile.

[zedem]

Thanks, it's the v1

[StephenB]

If you use a linux boot CD for your PC, you can try the procedure here; http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306

R-linux for windows might also be worth a try: http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/

Netgear offers a paid recovery service.

[JennC]

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Hello zedem,

Please see this article: ReadyNAS Data Recovery Diagnostics - Scope of Service

Regards,

[zedem]

Thanks for this, been busy since this was posted.

Tried the R-Linux tools, however after a scan it can't open any files "The selected disk does not contain any supported file systems or the file system is corrupted"

Will try a kinux boot CD, though have never really used linux before ...

[zedem]

So it seems my brother had powered of my caddy while R-Linux was doing a scan 

So have completed the scan, however on trying to recover the files, all the files are 0 bytes, any advise on this please?