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Title: LS-WVL/E -Dead- How to decrypt the hard drives?
Post by: Pablo89 on November 27, 2015, 11:00:00 PM
Hi everyone,
I have a problem I'm hoping you can help me solve. I have a Linkstation Duo, the LS-WVL/E to be precise. The system had two 1TB drives inside in Raid 1(Mirrored).
The box took its dying breath a couple days back and it has a red light blinking, I already tried all the first aid steps recommended by Buffalo to recover the system but its dead for real. They referred me to a company to recover my files, but they are asking for a lot of money and I can barely afford internet as I'm now.
When I plug the hard drives in my computer it shows a bunch of partitions but I don't see the files I had in storage.
My questions:
What kind of encryption do those systems use? (when I set it up I remember selecting the information to be encrypted with whatever program it used)
Can I un-encrypt the information if I know the password it was being encrypted under?

I would really appreciate any help on the matter. I was using the system as my emergency backup for family files and pictures and now I don't have any access to retrieve the information.
Please reply as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Pablo
Title: Re: LS-WVL/E -Dead- How to decrypt the hard drives?
Post by: Eastmarch on December 01, 2015, 05:03:02 PM
What makes you think it's encrypted?

It might just be that you need to mount the drive in a linux environment, as the XFS file system can't be read in windows.

If you used software to encrypt the NAS share, you may be in trouble, but a linux box should be able to share the drive over SMB just like the Linkstation did, so long as it was raid 1.
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