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[exponent]

I am just about ready to toss the DNS 323 into the scrap heap. I added a drive that was previously in a PC. There was already one drive present. The system found the new drive and wanted to format it. I used  the wizard which is useless. It ended up formatting both drives wiping out 900 GB of data in the process. I've had nothing but giref with this box. Why did this happen??I ran in a RAID 0 configuration before and it blew up taking both drives with it in the process. I moved the two drives that were there onto my PC and they have run fine in RAID 0 for over 6 months. Is there any way of unformatting a drive?

[jamieburchell]

Which drive mode was the 323 running in and which options did you select at the wizard screen?

Was the drive you added from a Linux machine?

As for unformatting, if it was me I'd put the drive in a PC and be googling for drive recovery tools in a vague hope it would recover something and be able to understand ext2/3 file systems.

Too late to give you the advice but you should have a backup of your data before attempting anything like this. It's amazing how many people fall foul of this basic principal.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Remember: Data you don't have at least two copies of is data you don't care about.