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Title: Windows will see hard drive
Post by: gmerlino on December 16, 2015, 03:36:44 PM
I have an old LS-500GL that I can no longer see on my network.  Reset to factor default (retaining the data), and still no luck.  Since it's so old I decided to pull the drive, connect it to my PC via SCSI/USB converter and simply copy the date (so I thought).

Device manager can see the drive but Windows does not.  How is the data written?

PLEASE HELP!!!!

Gina
Title: Re: Windows will see hard drive
Post by: davo on December 17, 2015, 05:37:00 AM
The file format is XFS which is not natively supported by Windows.
Title: Re: Windows will see hard drive
Post by: gmerlino on December 17, 2015, 08:46:37 AM
Thanks for the reply1! Any suggestions how I can retrieve the data?

:)
Title: Re: Windows will see hard drive
Post by: davo on December 17, 2015, 11:03:41 AM
If you value your data then contact a data recovery company and ensure you keep a backup next time.
Title: Re: Windows will see hard drive
Post by: steamship on December 18, 2015, 05:34:26 PM
Quote from: gmerlino on December 17, 2015, 08:46:37 AM
Thanks for the reply1! Any suggestions how I can retrieve the data?

:)

You could try DiskInternals Linux Reader for Windows. It's free and operates in read-only mode, so you can't overwrite the drive. I've used in before to get stuff off an XFS formatted drive.
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