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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-343 => Topic started by: SilkyShark on April 23, 2010, 11:55:36 PM

Title: Adding old disk to new DNS-343
Post by: SilkyShark on April 23, 2010, 11:55:36 PM

I had a DNS-343, added 2 standalone disks, upgraded to 1.03 firmware, had issues with crashes, tried to downgrade to 1.02, got a brick, got a new DNS-343 with 1.02 from D-link (thanks!!!) and now I try to insert the old disks but can not get it to accept them without reformatting.
Is there anyway to do this? I.e. add a disk that was used before without reformatting it??

Title: Re: Adding old disk to new DNS-343
Post by: JavaLawyer on April 26, 2010, 09:26:16 AM

I assume the two HDDs on the old DNS-343 were formatted as standard volumes.  If you place one of the old disks in the top slot of the DNS can you see your data?

Title: Re: Adding old disk to new DNS-343
Post by: SilkyShark on April 26, 2010, 04:27:36 PM

No, tried only one disk, in all slots, all I get is a chance to reformat it.

Title: Re: Adding old disk to new DNS-343
Post by: SilkyShark on April 26, 2010, 04:28:06 PM

and yes there where formatted as standard disks.

Title: Re: Adding old disk to new DNS-343
Post by: JavaLawyer on April 27, 2010, 06:10:35 AM

Adding the disk to slot 1 should have worked.  It's possible that the HDD is corrupted somehow, but that seems a bit unlikely for both HDDs.  The only suggestion I have left is utilizing a third party solution to mount an ext2 or ext3 formatted HDD on your PC to extract the data.

Title: Re: Adding old disk to new DNS-343
Post by: SilkyShark on April 27, 2010, 06:50:02 AM

OK, have only tried one disk, will try the other also, lets hope for more luck. Thanks!

Title: Re: Adding old disk to new DNS-343
Post by: JavaLawyer on April 27, 2010, 07:25:08 AM

Good luck.  Post your response after you test the other HDD.