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LS-WVL/E -Dead- How to decrypt the hard drives?

Started by Pablo89, November 27, 2015, 11:00:00 PM

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Pablo89

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

Eastmarch

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.
**A single copy of data, even on a RAID array, is NOT a backup! Hard drive failure is not a question of IF, but WHEN! Don't take my word for it, take Google's!**

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