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[luckyboy]

Hi all,

I know that "how to mount HDD using Ext2 IFS in windows" was described several times here, however nothing seems to be working for me and thats why I would like to ask you for help...

My situation:
I have DNS 323 with a pair of Samsungs F2 (1500 MB) in RAID1, firmware 1.08beta.
I wanted to try if it is possible to read the data from the disc just for case that DNS 323 is dead. So I installed Ext2 IFS 1.11a (Im using Vista) and connected one of the drives to my laptop USB (using SATA to USB converter). 3 new discs appeared however I could not access 2 of them (said they are not formatted) and the 3rd one containsed only a folder called BACKUP (empty). This only accessible drive had some 512 MB. And thats it. I could not see any of my files on any of the discs.

I have also tried booting from Ubuntu LiveCD - this time I could see only that 512MB disc with the empty BACKUP folder.

I tried the second disc from the RAID1 array as well. Same result.

When inserted back into DNS 323 - all is working as usually.

Could you please help me guys?

Thank you,

Kind Regards,
Lukas

[fordem]

Try using XP Pro with ext2ifs - I've read posts where folks using Vista have had problems with ext2ifs, I've used it with XP Pro successfully.

[luckyboy]

Thanks for a tip fordem. I will try however I dont think this will help because the Ubuntu Live CD showed the same to me

[fordem]

Take a closer look at the "symptoms" - they're not the same ...

Vista and the ext2ifs driver showed you three disk partitions, two of which it did not recognize and said they needed to be formatted.

Ubuntu only showed one partition.

With linux you sometimes have to create a mount point and specifically mount a given disk partition before it can be seen - Windows is a little more user friendly in this regard, although, depending on the system configuration, it can happen here also - ext2ifs has a control panel applet that can be used to resolve this.

[luckyboy]

Nope

WindowsXP Pro - same result as in Vista. See the screenshot below. Drive X: has 1,4 TB which should be the right one but when I try to access this one Im asked to format this drive first.
Any ideas? Not good to know that I can not get to the files if my DNS 323 was bricked





Same thread can me found here:
http://forum.dsmg600.info/viewtopic.php?id=4910

I will copy solution here if solved....

[fordem]

I have to assume that since this is posted in the beta forum, that you are running one of the 1.08 beta firmware versions.

The problem may relate to either the firmware version or the ext3 files system that was re-introduced in the firmware.

After running into the same problem you describe and noticing that the ext2ifs driver was reporting the partition type as linux and not ext2, I reflashed the older 1.07, reformatted my disks and was able to access the data on one disk removed from a RAID1 array using XP Pro, SP3 and the ext2ifs file system driver.

Edit ...

Consider it confirmed - a fw 1.08b5 disk formatted ext2 is not accessible using Windows and the ext2ifs driver - I guess this means that even though D-Link had not indicated this, there has been a change in the disk format - perhaps to accomodate larger physical drives??

[luckyboy]

Thanks to what fordem discovered 1.08b formatted Raid1 is no more mountable under windows.

See the discussion here if you are looking for a solution how to at least mount Raid1 disk in Linux: (thx Mijzelf)

http://forum.dsmg600.info/viewtopic.php?id=4910


EDIT: Single volume formatted disks in 1.08b not mountable in Windows as well. So it seems not only RAID configuration is affected...
Mountable under Linux without problems.

[hilaireg]

Nice discovery folks; have to keep this in mind post-firmware update.  Would be helpful if D-Link Engineering could provide some details as to why it's no longer possible.

Cheers,