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Title: Hard Drive Failure-How to read/repair drives in another system
Post by: coxwain on January 26, 2011, 07:05:06 AM

can i pull out my HDs from the DNS323 and put into a windows computer and read them and try to recover some data?

My drives are failing their seagate tools test, but I can still see the directory and file structure in a ubinto booted machine, although I know nothing of linux and any hard drive tools to either scandisk or chkdsk to help repair data or recover.

I run 2 x 1.5tb seagate drives in NAS and the vol2 with the BT on it is failed and doesnt report on the NAS anymore.
Each drive run as a separte volume.

I have win7 winxp machines and a ubintu CD that I can boot to.
thanks for you help
I wonder if there are better NAS systems out there?

Title: Re: Hard Drive Failure-How to read/repair drives in another system
Post by: Wiggs on January 26, 2011, 09:14:21 AM

Yes... but you have to install a ext2fs driver in order for Windows to be able to access the data.  You can try http://www.fs-driver.org/ or http://www.ext2fsd.com/
 


Regards,


Wiggs

Title: Re: Hard Drive Failure-How to read/repair drives in another system
Post by: coxwain on January 26, 2011, 10:41:33 AM

Great to hear.  can i install both or do I have to choose one or the other?  Also, will I be able to run all my windows disk tools etc?

thanks

Title: Re: Hard Drive Failure-How to read/repair drives in another system
Post by: Wiggs on January 26, 2011, 11:19:36 AM

Should be able to install both.  According to: http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html - defrag is not supported.  Not sure about other disk tools.

Regards,

Wiggs

Title: Re: Hard Drive Failure-How to read/repair drives in another system
Post by: coxwain on January 26, 2011, 12:12:19 PM

I wonder what tools I can use then to recover the data?

I get the outside write error on the seatools, but the ubintu sees the drive and directory structure  but cannot copy my movie files from the drive.

Title: Re: Hard Drive Failure-How to read/repair drives in another system
Post by: coxwain on January 26, 2011, 06:12:45 PM

Looks like this did the trick
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
installed and assigned the drive letters to the NAS drive and can see the directories.
But still have a corrupt HD and no tools to fix or overcome the problems.

Title: Re: Hard Drive Failure-How to read/repair drives in another system
Post by: fordem on January 27, 2011, 04:39:09 AM

If SeaTools is reporting a failure, your problem goes beyond simply corruption of the disk - it's unable to read/write to one or more sectors.

Try retrieving data from the other drive.

Title: Re: Hard Drive Failure-How to read/repair drives in another system
Post by: coxwain on January 28, 2011, 06:46:09 PM

Removed bad 1.5tb drive and put wd 500gb drive in and It formated restarted but can't see drive in easy config.

How do I get the drive to show up on the   Nas