DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

I had a PC attached to my home network with 2 identical 500GB drives, NTFS formatted, attached to a PCI RAID card (Raid 1, mirrored). Separate 80GB drive for the o/s (XP Pro). I bought a DNS-323 so that I could move the drives into it and dispense with the old, noisy, large PC which I was only using for storage anyway.

First thing I did was to upgrade to latest firmware (1.06).

I removed one of the drives and put it into the right hand slot in the DNS-323. Booted up, formatted it, all good.

I copied 300GB of data from the remaining drive in the PC to the DNS-323. All good so far.

Then I took the remaining NTFS drive from the PC and put it into the DNS-323 and booted it up.

I logged on via the web config page. The new drive was recognised and I went through the wizard which said (something like) ‘your new drive need to be formatted, all data will be lost’. I chose Raid 1 and it said something like ‘don’t worry, your old drive will not lose any data’.

Can you guess what happened next? I checked the status page and waited for 48 minutes after which time I had 500GB free, 4kb used.

I rebooted and now it is complaining about a drive needing to be formatted. I powered it down.

Most of the stuff I have lost was downloaded music and films which I can get back and luckily I was cynical enough to backup photos and documents onto the little bit of space I had on the old PC’s o/s disk. So everything is recoverable but is there any way I can get my data back?

Last edited by eyebee (2009-04-06 11:51:04)