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Title: Trying to recover data
Post by: chuckd83 on March 15, 2013, 07:11:36 AM

After several power outages, I am no longer able to access the Volume. I had two-2TB Samsung HD204UI drives in RAID 1. (I read the RAID 1 not a backup message too late)

I have tried to access them from Windows 7 from an external enclosure and directly to the MB with no response. Booted from Ubuntu 12 and it only shows 500MB (maybe from ffp?).

I ran R Studio and it reports 1000s of "specific documents", but it gave me a message about the drive being corrupt (not sure on the specifics as I had to leave quickly this morning).

Any suggestions on trying to recover the data?

Title: Re: Trying to recover data
Post by: JavaLawyer on March 15, 2013, 08:08:27 AM

Did you try accessing both HDDs independently on third party devices or just the HDD in bay #1?

I can't guarantee that this will work, but you can try removing both HDDs and only insert the HDD originally located in slot #2 into slot #1 and reboot (so the DNS-321 will only have 1 HDD)

Title: Re: Trying to recover data
Post by: chuckd83 on March 15, 2013, 09:07:11 AM

Quote from: JavaLawyer on March 15, 2013, 08:08:27 AM

Did you try accessing both HDDs independently on third party devices or just the HDD in bay #1?

I can't guarantee that this will work, but you can try removing both HDDs and only insert the HDD originally located in slot #2 into slot #1 and reboot (so the DNS-321 will only have 1 HDD)

I tried that, but still doesn't work. The other weird thing is it takes FOREVER to shut down so I can swap drives. Like 10 minutes.