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Hi all,
I searched the forum but couldn't find anything.
Well here's the problem:
I have a RAID 1 with two identical drives. Everything worked fine...until I didn't read the README before upgrading from 1.03 to 1.04 :-/ whch resulted in a broken RAID1 (I guess mainly because of the special characters (German) .... I wasn't even able to rename folders with bad letters.
Well...I backuped everything and reformatted the drives with 1.04.
After uploading intentionally only 4 special files and rebooting the device I got a degraded RAID again.
Reseting the dns323 to factory settings, setting up firmware to 1.03 and reformatting seems to work.
after a few days I got a message: left harddrive failed...BUT they are fine. the spin up and all that.
To 100% ensure that the drives are fine I want to check them with a special tool from the hdd vendor.
But therefore they must be mounted in my windows env.
I bought a serial ata cable and connected everything...BIOS (elitegroup 848p) SATA setting is set to AUTO.
I installed EXT2IFS_1_11 on my windows machine.
Rebooting the pc takes a loooooong time for 'detecting harddrives' and ends in a fine running windows...WITHOUT the sata drive...
What can I do to get my hard drives working in a windows machine to be able to run the check and low level formatting tools of the vendor.
So far and thanks for yor help
Alex
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That is a question that is a little out of the scope of this forum.
You should be able to just plug the drive(s) into a PC system, power it up and have them recognized - if your PC does not recogonize the disks, then you need to get assistance from either the PC manufacturer's tech support or the disk manufacturer's tech support.
Judging from your post, you may be expecting to see the drives show up in "My Computer" in Windows, this is not necessarily going to happen, especially since the drives are in an ext2 format - and to the best of my knowledge is NOT required to "be able to run the check and low level formatting tools of the vendor".
The "check and low level formatting tools of the vendor" most likely unpack to a bootable CD, if this is the case, I would - out of an abundance of caution - unplug my Windows disks from my system, connect the disk(s) I want to check and low level format and then boot from the utility CD and follow the disk manufacturer's instructions. Once I had completed that task, I would then reconnect my Windows disks.
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