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Author Topic: Can't see drive from USB backup device  (Read 3244 times)

cjmedina

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Can't see drive from USB backup device
« on: December 22, 2009, 05:21:36 AM »
I'm replacing my 2 500GB drives with WD 1.5 TB's

I want to make sure I can still get the files off the drive externally through my portable USB device.

I took the drives out and ran it off the external USB but i don't see the drive.

What can I do?



Thanks

Cliff
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AKFubar

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Re: Can't see drive from USB backup device
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2009, 05:27:40 AM »
Have you tried leaving 1 of the 500GB drive in the DNS-323 and transfer the files to a newly installed and formatted 1.5 tb drive in the other bay of the DNS-323?

Also if you are using the USB port on the DNS-323 for your USB device it will not work.  That port is for printer sharing only in the firmware.
« Last Edit: December 22, 2009, 05:32:33 AM by AKFubar »
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Can't see drive from USB backup device
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2009, 05:32:19 AM »
The drives from the DNS-323 are formatted by Linux, so you'll have to have an EXT2 filesystem add-on for Windows if you expect to read them with Windows.

Try this one: Ext2 Installable File System For Windows (http://www.fs-driver.org/)
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cjmedina

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Re: Can't see drive from USB backup device
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2009, 06:32:56 AM »
Thanks for the advice. I will give it a try......
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Can't see drive from USB backup device
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2009, 06:51:16 AM »
Note that if you formatted these as RAID-0 for some reason, you're out of luck.
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