Terastation III - EXT3 Reader

[mbs_derek]

   

Model = Terastation III

Firmware = 1.10

 

I am trying to confirm that the USB data can be read on a Windows PC, incase our Terastation dies and we need to restore from the USB drive.

 

I have installed the EXT3 Reader from the 'info' share of our Terastation III - onto my Windows 7 notebook.

The USB drive appears in Control Panel - Disk Management as a healthy disk but without a drive letter - as expected

Then I run the 'EXT3 Reader' program, but it cannot connect to the USB drive

 

Error Message = "USB Disk Not Found"

 

Any advice will be gratefully received...

[rinthos]

   

Keep in mind your drives in the Terastation III are in a raided configuration, so you'll need to provide more information.

Are you trying to read a disk out of a Raid 1 mirror? Or a disk out of a Raid 5 parity stripe?

If Raid 1 you have hope...try using UFS Explorer.

If Raid 5, 1 drive alone won't get you what you want...and you'll be out of luck.

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[mbs_derek]

   

Oops, sorry.

 

The Terastation III drives are in RAID5 and I have formatted a couple of USB drives for external storage.

Nightly we backup Windows servers to the NAS using ShadowProtect software, which has a ROBOCOPY batch command to copy the newly created backup file onto the USB for offsite storage.

 

If our office burnt down, I would have to restore from the USB disk, which is in EXT3 format.

However I cannot read from the USB from Windows7 with the supplied EXT3 Reader application.

 

Hope that explains our setup a bit better, and the aim of what I am trying to achieve :-)

[JoshC]

You would have to try a Linux bootable CD.

[rinthos]

   

UFS explorer should do the trick for you.

 

http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_stdr.php">http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_stdr.php

 

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[hmph]

Hi,

 

"If our office burnt down" is excaclty what I told the support team.

Question: Did anything of the mentioned solutions work?

In my case it didn´t (yet)

I used an internal mirrored hdd, it isnt recognised by Linux/Win 7/XP/ any EXT reader software including the original one.

hours of tries with e.g. diskinternals tools had ended in BSOD by now.

my customer is my dentist, can you imagine what he could do to me :smileymad:

 

 

[uli_cezar]

Hi,

I have smilar problem, and whould gladly see any solution.

I whould like to take the hard disk out of my linkstatio pro duo (I have only one 2Tb hard disk inside) to my office, make an extensive back up, once a month by simply connecting the hardisk directly to my backed up PC running Windows 7, instead of struggling with transferring this large amount through the network to my home. I can't do it. Out of the 6 partitions that I have on the hard disk, only the first one (probably the boot one) is recognized as ext3 and I can access it's content with ext2fsd, the rest partitions appear as letters with RAW partitions on it.

Any one can help to clear up things?

I beleive that since these NAS units have removable hard disks, they should be universally usable.

[miked]

Anyone find the solution? I have a brand new TeraStation and have the same problem. Followed the directions in the users manual exactly and cannot access the USB drive from a windows 7 machine with EXT3 Reader. 'USB Disk Not Found'. Firmware is up to date, tried a different USB drive, tried a different Windows 7 computer. This is pretty critical for me as we need to use the USB drives for offsite backups of the TeraStation.

[joma90]

So im just going to make sure that you did the following.

Got a use drive and inserted in to the TeraStation and then formatted the USB drive to EXT3 right?

I have done this and got it to work.. It could be windows if you did everything right. I would try another computer.

I have not had any problems with reading the usb drive and its just a western digital drive with a Thermaltake dock.

[miked]

Got a use drive and inserted in to the TeraStation and then formatted the USB drive to EXT3 right?

I have done this and got it to work.. It could be windows if you did everything right. I would try another computer.

I have not had any problems with reading the usb drive and its just a western digital drive with a Thermaltake dock.

Correct. Connected the USB drive to the TeraStation and formatted it to EXT3 from the web interface.

Already tried another computer with the same result.

The drive I'm using are 4TB Seagate USB drives (Model STCA4000100) and tried a WD drive as well that I had laying around.

Thanks for the reply!

[joma90]

Hmm.. i cant speak for 4tb or 3tb drives. I used a 2tb drive and had no issue. only thing you can do then is have a linux live boot image on a usb or cd. OR you can try this.
http://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/

Now if you do this you are doing it at your own risk. It works fine on windows 8.1 so i dont see why it would not work on 7.