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Carob Nut
 Member 1353 Level 5.27 Mar 2006 
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External Hard Drive Not Functioning! Recover Files?
I have a NAS Device with a WD 400 GB Drive. The NAS device has not worked for the past two months and I'm guessing its the hard drive's fault. So I remove the external hard drive from the NAS and connect to my computer as an internal drive.
In Windows Disk Management I see the drive. It has 4 separate partitions on it. But I cannot see or extract any files from them. It says its not recognized file system type of something. How can I recover data from the hard drive? Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 574 Level 7.95 Mar 2006
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My guess is that the NAS is some sort of small Linux server and had the hard drive formatted in ext2/3. So, you'll need to use Linux to recover the files (a Ubuntu live CD would be perfect) or use some sort of software to read the partitions. A quick google search led me to this though I don't know if it's any good. Good luck.
How ya doing, buddy? |
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Chocorific
Member 6745 Level 38.97 May 2006
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In case the filesystems on the NAS are indeed of ext2 or ext3 format you can use this driver for Windows:
Ext2 IFS For Windows I dunno if it's also working with ext4, but it works quite well for ext2 (and it's journaling variant ext3). How ya doing, buddy? |
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