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Title: Lightning strike damage? DNS-321
Post by: jherder on August 02, 2011, 08:50:30 AM
We had a lightning hit just outside of our house.
It fried out garage door opener, my motherboard, hard drive, dvd, a small 5 port switch, and my 16 port switch.
My DNS-321 (192.168.22.6) has not worked right since either, but it originally was pingable and now it won't even ping. It lights up with blue lights on each side, they are flashing, but I don't get a ping back. Ideas?

C:\Users\Jay>ping 192.168.22.6

Pinging 192.168.22.6 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.22.4: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.22.4: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.22.4: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.22.4: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics for 192.168.22.6:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss)

My IP is the 192.168.22.4...

Thanks for any and all help/suggestions.
Title: Re: Lightning strike damage? DNS-321
Post by: JavaLawyer on August 02, 2011, 09:17:32 AM
Assuming your hard drives are undamaged, there are options available to mount the drives in a PC to retrieve your data. The DNS-321 formats hard drives using a Linux file system.  Windows applications exist that will permit you to mount drives with the Linux file system on your PC. Alternatively, you can install the drives in a Linux PC and pull the data.
Title: Re: Lightning strike damage? DNS-321
Post by: jherder on August 02, 2011, 12:47:48 PM
Please let me know what apps you are referring to. Thank you!
Title: Re: Lightning strike damage? DNS-321
Post by: JavaLawyer on August 02, 2011, 01:27:44 PM
Here's a thread describing a software application, "R-Studio", used to virtually mount a DNS series HDD on a PC: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=6144.msg61493#msg61493.  I w
Title: Re: Lightning strike damage? DNS-321
Post by: JavaLawyer on August 02, 2011, 01:29:04 PM
The application I mentioned in my last post may be for-pay software. There are freeware applications available, but I don't recall any names off hand.
Title: Re: Lightning strike damage? DNS-321
Post by: JavaLawyer on August 02, 2011, 01:34:59 PM
Found the thread I was looking for: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=8215.0 (Mounting disk in Windows using Ext2 IFS).