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[nathan-c]

Hi,
I had a 750gb hd in my dnd-323 set as standard. I wanted to upgrade to two 2gb hard drives running in a raid 1. My 750gb has about 400gb used. Anyways, I thought it would be easy to take out my existing drive, put the two new ones in, setup and and then use a usb universal drive adapter to connect my old hd to my win7 pc and transfer the date to the new hd's in the DNS-323. Well safe to say it didn't work and I can't access the data. Here is how I set everything up and then how I tried to go back to the way things were before I bought the new drives but to no avail.
1.) I removed the old drive and re-powered on the dns-323 with no drives. I saved the config file and then upgraded the firmware to 1.09.
2.) I installed the 2 new drives and went through the setup. Everything worked fine and they were setup as a raid 1. I re-mapped the dns-323 as a network drive to my win 7 pro pc.
3.) I then took the old drive and connected it to the pc with the adapter. Win 7 configures the device for use and appears to be successful however, the drive does not mount and I can't see the data. I think something is wrong with the adpater so I remove it and install the drive directly to my pc through and extra SATA port. I configure everything in the bios and win 7 sees it. But still no mounting. I go to disk management and see that the device is there but no drive letter. I read some forums and switch the disk from basic to dynamic. The disk no shows up with drive letters, but I have to format them to use them because the files system states its a "raw" type. I obviously click no. After much reading I find out that win 7 can't read raw file systems.
4.) I try to back track now. I remove the drive and want to place it back into the dns-323. I take the old drives out, reset to factory defaults and place the drive in and it ask me to pick a raid type and format. I click skip and it skips but my drive is still not showing up. How can I re access the data. How can I get the DNS-323 to accept the old drive and allowing me to get the data or am I screwed since I updated the firmware. There has to be an easy way to get this data without spending a fortune on a data recovery service. I have also tried the ext2fsd for win 7 with no luck. Again it shows a disk is there but i can't do anything with it. and shows no data. I have tried the easeus recovery wizard and it shows data is there and takes forever. There has to be an easier way.

Thanks for the help and sorry for the long post.

Nathan   

[Wiggs]

You can't "see" the data on the drive because the DNS uses a Linux filesystem.  You must download a ext2 driver for windows in order to mount the drive in Windows.  This should solve your problem.

ie: http://www.fs-driver.org/


Regards,

Wiggs

[dividedhighw]

Especially @Wiggs - (but anyone else also!) 

A couple of questions:
1. I'm running Win7Pro64 ... will "fs-driver" work for me?  I'm asking because in my DNS-321, I currently have 500 gigs of storage (via Raid 1 of 2x500GB drives) and would like to upgrade to larger drives, so I'm investigating how to best do that - having access to my Ext2 data from my Win7 box would help.  [OTOH, if I can boot live Linux and use "dd" to clone one of my existing 500GB DNS-321 drives onto a 2TB drive, and somehow 'extend' the 500GB partition to 2TB, AND get it to work again in my NAS, I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts on that approach!]
2. [This 2nd question comes from reading your signature block.]
I also have an OPlay (R1, not the R2 Air) and it works well with my DNS-321, but for my in-laws, I installed a DNS-323 and their OPlay R1 cannot authenticate reliably to their NAS ... no matter what, it always reports something like "Logon failure" (oddly, I got it to work ONCE, but never again) ... any ideas?

TIA!
DH