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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-343 => Topic started by: CyberTron on January 17, 2009, 09:09:00 PM

Title: Reading the volumn from the harddisk directly from windows?
Post by: CyberTron on January 17, 2009, 09:09:00 PM

I previously have a 1 x 1TB inside my dns-343. I've not replaced it with 4 x 1.5TB with the new beta firmware.

The question is whether it is possible to copythe data in my old 1TB harddisk directly from windows xp/vista?

I tried to use the ext2 driver for windows, and it shows the partition as Linux instead of ext2. Or I can read it using a Linux Live CD option?

What kind of partition is used on the dns 343? LVM? md raid even for single harddisk?

Title: Re: Reading the volumn from the harddisk directly from windows?
Post by: VideoGuy on January 18, 2009, 07:00:09 AM

I’m not an expert but I think the dns-343 uses either ext2 or ext3 file systems.  These are Linux/UNIX type files systems.

I did the same thing you are trying to do.  I used a free Windows application (Ext2IFS) and was able to connect the disk to my Windows XP machine, and copy the data to my newly formatted drives in the dns-343.  Ext2IFS can read ext2 and ext3 file systems.  You can google for Ext2IFS and find the software.

Title: Re: Reading the volumn from the harddisk directly from windows?
Post by: ECF on January 19, 2009, 03:27:35 PM

Correct!

Title: Re: Reading the volumn from the harddisk directly from windows?
Post by: vgisin on March 30, 2011, 02:41:47 PM

Just for the record, this software doesn't run under Windows 7....