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Title: DNS-323 failed - switch hard drive to DNS-325 without loosing any data?
Post by: kumarnvm on April 06, 2012, 03:54:45 PM

Experts,

My DNS-323 failed a month ago and I bought DNS-325 in a deal couple of days back. Now, can I just take the hard drive from DNS-323 and put it in DNS-325? Does it format the drive or recognize it as drive with data? I just have one drive and want to be careful not to loose any data. Anyway to do this? Also I bought a hard disk docking station thinking that I can transfer data to my Win7 PC, but I'm not able to access it in my PC (it shows the disk in disk manager though). Any suggestion?

Thanks

Title: Re: DNS-323 failed - switch hard drive to DNS-325 without loosing any data?
Post by: MotoDC on April 06, 2012, 06:44:25 PM

Hey kumarnvm,

I'm no expert, and unfortunately I can't answer your question. However, from what I've read if you insert a drive from another DNS it will attempt to format it again.

Maybe someone from tech support can comment? Also, maybe tech support can comment on what format the drives are?

I would really try to play it safe and wait for a reply before losing your data.

Best of luck!

Title: Re: DNS-323 failed - switch hard drive to DNS-325 without loosing any data?
Post by: priitv8 on April 07, 2012, 01:04:13 AM

This topic has already been dealt with:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=46863.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=46863.0)
Because our NAS is running on Linux, it uses Linux's EXT2 or EXT3 (DNS-325 EXT3 only!).
You need additional tools to access the file system of a Linux drive on Windows:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=41800.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=41800.0)