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[puder]

obviously i'm kind of up the creek and my paddle has long since floated away.

any advice on maybe getting some of the data back? I've pulled the drives and been running recovery software but not having much luck. I've mainly been getting just junk.

Any utilities you guys recommened? Maybe recovery services?

the real kick in the nads is I was adding the second drive so that my data would be more secure.   

[JoeSchmuck]

I take it you didn't have any of the data backed up?

There are services which may be able to recover your data but the question becomes, how much are you willing to pay to retrieve the data.  These services are not cheap.

-Joe

[gunrunnerjohn]

And, depending on the format, they may also not recover much, or anything.

[rayholio]

I did the same thing yesterday..  purchased 'undelete' software and popped the newly 321 formatted drive into my desktop, then ran it.. 

I set up the undelete software to recover files directly to the DNS-321 over the network..   it worked.  It was fast too.. 400 gb recovered in about 2-3 hours..  then I popped the drive back into the 321, and it rebuilt the raid 0 from the recovered data.

If you have a hard drive formatted, the old data is usually still there..  unless you do a 'write to 0s' format..    You just need software that can see it..

The recovery was a life saver..  I had about 200gb of lossless media files that would have taken a month or more to re-rip..  The recovery was not flawless..  a few of my media files have a 'pop' or other audio error in them now..  it's rare, and It'll be easy to fix..  especially compaired to redoing it from scratch.

Undelete software can usually recover a lot of files even after you've done some writing to the drive..  it may be worth looking into.

[Phils]

Do you remeber what you did to accidently erase the drive? I'm adding a drive this weekend and I 'd like to avoid the same mistake.

[gunrunnerjohn]

If you're not doing a RAID configuration, remove the first drive and format the second one, then put the first drive back in.  Reduces the likelihood of an accidental format.

FWIW, you really should have a backup anyway...

[Phils]

If you're not doing a RAID configuration, remove the first drive and format the second one, then put the first drive back in.  Reduces the likelihood of an accidental format.

FWIW, you really should have a backup anyway...

I'd say that will definitely eliminate the possibility for sure.

Actually, I do have a backup. Just trying to avoid a pitfall and a long copy job, if possible. That didn't go too well for me the first go around.

But I'm curious, if I remove the first drive won't the NAS label the second drive Volume1 again? Or does the side you install the drive determine the label?

[gunrunnerjohn]

Good question, I haven't put one drive at a time into either of mine.  I've always stuck two drives in and formatted them as a set.  I also have complete backups for the files in question, so if disaster happened to strike my NAS, it's just an inconvenience, not a disaster.

[JoeSchmuck]

If you have a single drive in the NAS now and you just want to double your capacity (No RAID), simply add the second drive. The NAS screens will ask you to either format it as a RAID drive or a second drive.

As I understand it, if you pull your first drive and put in a new drive, yes, it will be called Volume_1.  I don't know how the NAS will interpret installing the original drive after that, maybe it will call it Volume_2 but I suspect it will want to reform the drive.  I'm sure someone here knows this answer because they did it.

-Joe