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#1 2008-09-12 19:23:16
- ricmik
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- Registered: 2007-09-23
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Copy data from detached DNS-323 drive
Hello!
My DNS-323 power adapter got fried by lightning.. Now I would like to copy data from one of the drives in my RAID-1 volume.
I've tried to connect the drive in a USB HDD-enclosure, but Windows doesn't seem to recognize the HDD-enclosure as being a harddrive.
However, it works if I insert a NTFS-formatted drive in the enclosure..
I thought Windows would recognize the hardware, and then use Ext2IFS to mount the partition. Maybe it will work if I insert the drive into a computer directly with SATA?
Have anyone ever tried to do "backup" in this kind of way?
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#2 2008-09-12 19:46:44
- luusac
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Re: Copy data from detached DNS-323 drive
yes, I have. Installed ext2ifs on an xp machine and connected the drive directly. No problems copying files. Are you using XP or vista (I have a feeling that I read somewhere that vista has problems with the ext2ifs (I am not sure about this though)).
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#3 2008-09-12 21:50:16
- bq041
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Re: Copy data from detached DNS-323 drive
I have not gotten it to work on vista (even assigning it a drive letter with the applet).
Last edited by bq041 (2008-09-12 23:41:04)
DNS-323 F/W: 1.04b84 H/W: A1 ffp: 0.5 Drives: 2X 400 GB Seagate SATA-300
DNS-323 F/W: 1.05b28 H/W: B1 ffp: 0.5 Drives: 2X 1 TB WD SATA-300
DSM-G600 F/W: 1.02 H/W: B Drive: 500 GB WD ATA
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#4 2008-09-12 23:13:04
- fordem
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- Registered: 2007-01-26
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Re: Copy data from detached DNS-323 drive
I have pulled drives from my DNS-323 and attached them to a USB/SATA bridge connected to Windows XP with ext2ifs on many occasions, the most recent being last night - it works.
If you don't see the drive show up in My Computer, you may need to use the ext2ifs Windows control panel applet to manipulate the drive letters - that is documented on the ext2ifs website.
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#5 2008-09-15 19:16:30
- ricmik
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Re: Copy data from detached DNS-323 drive
Well.. Vista didn't work with ext2ifs so I ended up installing Ubuntu on my laptop.
The DNS-323 makes different partitions on the HDD, so Ubuntu automounted an empty partition called "Backup".
I had to manually mount the mail partition using option "-t ext2" because the partition type was set to "raid_member".
This gave me access to all of my precious data! 
Last edited by ricmik (2008-09-15 19:23:27)
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