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Author Topic: Restoring hard disc  (Read 3221 times)

Supercooper52

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Restoring hard disc
« on: April 07, 2014, 12:33:42 PM »
Hi hopefully someone can help, I have a 320L. I have recently upgraded the discs to a larger size. I would like to be able to read the data from the old drive via a USB drive caddy. I have a mac a pc running windows vista and also a laptop running Ubuntu, I have tried downloading all the recommended ext2 program's that have been suggested in the sticky threads on this site and I still can't get the drive to appear either on the mac, windows or Ubuntu. 

I had thought the easiest way forward would be to use the laptop with Ubuntu, but I'm a complete newbie to Linux.  Can anyone tell me how I go about mounting the drive. The drive seems to be called disk4s1 but it doesn't seem to appear in the file manager

Thanks for any help offered
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paulpaul

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Re: Restoring hard disc
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2014, 06:13:47 AM »
When I needed to copy the contents of an EXT3 drive to a clean drive in a new DNS-320L I just used 'Ext2Fsd is an open source linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows systems (NT/2K/XP/VISTA, X86/AMD64).' Check the Help section of this forum. Worked transparently in allowing Windows Explorer access to DNS-320 formated disks attached to Windows by USB caddy - treats Ext2 disks as any other. I then used the freeware Cobian Backup to systematically copy/backup the data to the new disk, before installing this older disk into the new DNS-320L, formatting and backing up my data using the Share centers own back up programme. Time consuming, but my data is safe, and its all sorted now.
  
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Supercooper52

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Re: Restoring hard disc
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2014, 06:12:52 AM »
Many thanks for your reply paulpaul, I did try the ext2fsd driver but the drive didn't show up in windows explorer.  I have since restored my data from a different couple of drives, so it's all sorted for now. I just hope that if I need to restore from my new drives I will have more luck

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