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Title: Is it necessary to format the HDD after factory reset?
Post by: yaseriran on November 08, 2013, 12:32:32 AM

Hi

I have recently bought a DNS-320 N.A.S. I put a 3 TB Toshiba H.D.D into it and formatted it and copied some valuable data on it. To some reasons I reseted the device to factory setting using the key on the rear of it. now the device doesn't recognize my H.D.D. I tried putting H.D.D on an external box but the formatting system was unknown to Windows 7. Is there any way to recover my data?

Urgent help is highly appreciated.

Title: Re: Is it necessary to format the HDD after factory reset?
Post by: r0g3r on November 11, 2013, 10:59:17 AM

you can try mounting the hdd in linux (eg. ubuntu) or use this driver, to make windows read ext drives. if this don´t work the data is not accessable anymore.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/)

Title: Re: Is it necessary to format the HDD after factory reset?
Post by: JavaLawyer on November 11, 2013, 12:22:03 PM

Please see the following sticky post: DNS-320L - Data Recovery (Windows PC) (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=50772.0)

Title: Re: Is it necessary to format the HDD after factory reset?
Post by: yaseriran on November 12, 2013, 11:17:30 PM

Thanks for replies