- May 5, 2013
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I have a 1 TB (2x 500 Western Digital SATA drives) Cavalry NAS from 2008. It worked OK for awhile, then got bogged down transferring lots of files, then intermittently dropped communication with my LAN, now I can
t see the device on my network at all. It was setup as RAID-1 out of the box, and I cam confident that the data still resides on one or both of the drives. I took out one drive and plugged it into the MOBO on my W7 box, Windows did not recognize the drives until I told it to convert it from a DYNAMIC disk to a BASIC disk. IT assigned drive letter, but won't let me access any of the space on the drive unless I format, and I don't want to do that, for fear of losing the data. The other drive is still in the NAS enclosure. Is there a way for me to bypass the hardware-based NAS disk structure, and just copy the files over to another computer?
t see the device on my network at all. It was setup as RAID-1 out of the box, and I cam confident that the data still resides on one or both of the drives. I took out one drive and plugged it into the MOBO on my W7 box, Windows did not recognize the drives until I told it to convert it from a DYNAMIC disk to a BASIC disk. IT assigned drive letter, but won't let me access any of the space on the drive unless I format, and I don't want to do that, for fear of losing the data. The other drive is still in the NAS enclosure. Is there a way for me to bypass the hardware-based NAS disk structure, and just copy the files over to another computer?
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