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Products => Storage => Topic started by: paulmak on August 29, 2012, 11:16:41 AM

Title: LinkStation Min 500GB NAS - How to read one of the removed HDD
Post by: paulmak on August 29, 2012, 11:16:41 AM

Can you help?  My Nas was declared broken by Buffalo Tech Supp. Most likely that the disks are fine though. 

 

I had it mirrored so both disks should be the same.  I removed one and connected to my Windows 7 PC, under the system devises it shows it as a drive of the corrrect size and make, but doesn't 'mount' it as an accessable drive.  

 

I tried downloading Explore2FS, however that doesn't seem to see it as a drive either (should it?).  Is there a way to be able to access the drive?

 

(This is my first post)

Title: Re: LinkStation Min 500GB NAS - How to read one of the removed HDD
Post by: davo on August 29, 2012, 11:23:27 AM

the drives are formatted to a Linux file system (xfs) so cannot be read natively by WIndows, you can try data recovery software like UFS explorer or install a Linux distro using a Live CD

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