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Title: My NAS Died. How do I view my data.
Post by: greatone76 on April 19, 2011, 01:50:40 PM

I had (2) disks in a Raid 1 array.  I loaded one of the disks into a USB external enclosure.  on Windows 7 I can view the USB device and in Disk manager I can see the disk with (3) partitions, but I can't view any of the data on the disc.  I'm assuming the Raid 1 is a software Raid Controller and has formatted my data in something that windows can't read.  Can anyone tell me what the format is and how to get some software or something to get my data off the disk? 

Title: Re: My NAS Died. How do I view my data.
Post by: fordem on April 19, 2011, 02:35:10 PM

The disk is either in an ext2 or ext3 file structure - both of which are native to linux - you should be able to read them in Windows if you use an installable file system driver - ext2ifs is the one I used, but it may not work with Windows7, there are others - google will help find them.

The best way to deal with your situation however - is to back up the data before the NAS fails - what if the failure takes the disks with it?