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Hello:
I have a DNS-323 with two Seagate 7200rpm Barracuda Hard Drives. One of the drives is acting up (another post). I removed the DNS323 HDs one at a time and installed them into my Nexstar Hard Drive Dock (conneted to computer via USB) to see if I could view their contents with my desktop computer(XP) and even tried my notebook computer (Vista). Neither computer shows that the hard drive(s) are connected. I tried the suspect drive and the good drive and got the same result.
Can the drives only be viewed if installed in the DNS-323?
Do I have to do something special to view these drives when not installed in the DNS-323?
thank you
Freedom75
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The something special is called Linux, or more precisely the ext2fs file system used by Linux.
There are basically two ways to view these drives on a PC.
(i) plug them into a working linux computer.
This can be done by installing linux, or running a live-cd style distribution.
(ii) use an add on for Windows that reads the ext2fs file system.
I know of two. One is called something like ext2 ifs which stands for ext2 installable file system.
This makes windows 2k/xp understand ext2 about as well as it understands ntfs. I've had
good results with read-only mode and mixed results with r/w, although others have had good
results.
The second is something like ext2fs explorer. It is an explorer look-alike that can interpret
the ext2fs file system at an application level. I have no experience with this other than
downloading but not installing it since the ifs did most of what I wanted.
Another avenue to diagnose these drives would be to use the smarttools package natively on
the dns-323. It mostly works, including short and long self-tests and surface scans.
It goes without saying that you may want to back up the data some time soon.
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Update:
Thanks TalkingRock, I first downloaded Ubuntu and tried to do a LiveCd operation but that failed so I checked out ext2 ifs but I was a little nervous when it mentioned that data could get corrupted so I searched the web and found this site.
http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux- … om-windows
I tried DiskInternals Linux Reader and it worked (reads only) and I can see all the folders and files so that is promising. That was late last night and I have errands to run this mornng. But I know that the data is there. As you said I need to make a copy ASAP, so I am going to buy a backup hard drive today
Thanks
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