I have an External hard drive that has 2 physical drives with raid partition. It cant seem to work properly now. Can I remove these hard drives and attach it as a secondary hard drives on my desktop and still preserve/extract the contents of the raid drives?
can I use raid drives with data as secondary hard drives.
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SuperSoph_WD
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Hey there, dxiaman!
Can you provide more details about your external HDD and the RAID configuration? It's highly unlikely you'd be able to access your data from the RAID HDDs and your system would require you to reformat them. I'd recommend you to test the drives first, using their brand-specific diagnostic tool. In case you can't find this on the HDD manufacturer's website, you can refer to some good third-party testing tool suggestion here.
You most probably won't be able to access the data from the SATA ports due to the fact that most external enclosures are configured with different 4K LBAs than the native SATA LBAs (512e).
IF the data is very important, you should probably consider contacting a professional data recovery company. They are your best bet at getting your files back.
Keep me posted & Good luck!
SuperSoph_WD
Can you provide more details about your external HDD and the RAID configuration? It's highly unlikely you'd be able to access your data from the RAID HDDs and your system would require you to reformat them. I'd recommend you to test the drives first, using their brand-specific diagnostic tool. In case you can't find this on the HDD manufacturer's website, you can refer to some good third-party testing tool suggestion here.
You most probably won't be able to access the data from the SATA ports due to the fact that most external enclosures are configured with different 4K LBAs than the native SATA LBAs (512e).
IF the data is very important, you should probably consider contacting a professional data recovery company. They are your best bet at getting your files back.
Keep me posted & Good luck!
SuperSoph_WD
13thmonkey
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Generally speaking no, if only for the fact that the raid controller you have (if you have one) will be different.
drtweak
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Yea not without some kind of Recovery program to extrat your data then reuse the drives and format them.
But also give us the details of the drive as some of the drives encrypt data as well in which case without that enclosure you can access the data period.
But also give us the details of the drive as some of the drives encrypt data as well in which case without that enclosure you can access the data period.
Thanks to all replies.
It feels so good to have a knowledgeable community as support to us newbies.
The hard drives are from a buffalo Link station duo- (2-Drive RAID Network Storage) LS-WXL series
the drive failed to be located by our networks and PCs since it was shutdown during our office move. The unit still lights up and I think i hear some slight humming sound indicating the drives are still working.
I am not familiar with NAS and raid drives- other than what it is good for.
I am researching on the solutions suggested..... not easy task....
Simple solutions are much appreciated.
Thanks.
It feels so good to have a knowledgeable community as support to us newbies.
The hard drives are from a buffalo Link station duo- (2-Drive RAID Network Storage) LS-WXL series
the drive failed to be located by our networks and PCs since it was shutdown during our office move. The unit still lights up and I think i hear some slight humming sound indicating the drives are still working.
I am not familiar with NAS and raid drives- other than what it is good for.
I am researching on the solutions suggested..... not easy task....
Simple solutions are much appreciated.
Thanks.
drtweak
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IS your IP address scheme the same? As in your old office was 192.168.1.XXX and your new office is the same? If the IP address scheme is different that is your issue then. You need to do one of two things if that is the case.
1) Change the router to match the old scheme. if the old router was like 192.168.1.1 it needs to be changed to that kind of scheme and subnet.
2) If you wish to change the IP of the NAS or can't change the route then you need to manually change the IP address of your PC which you can read here if you don't know how
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19249/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-address-in-xp-vista-or-windows-7/
and then you should be able to access the NAS and then give it a new IP address on your new network.
To me it doesn't sound like an issue with the NAS but some other config issue that is causing this. And more than likely it formats its hard drives as linux partitions.
1) Change the router to match the old scheme. if the old router was like 192.168.1.1 it needs to be changed to that kind of scheme and subnet.
2) If you wish to change the IP of the NAS or can't change the route then you need to manually change the IP address of your PC which you can read here if you don't know how
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19249/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-address-in-xp-vista-or-windows-7/
and then you should be able to access the NAS and then give it a new IP address on your new network.
To me it doesn't sound like an issue with the NAS but some other config issue that is causing this. And more than likely it formats its hard drives as linux partitions.
It worked!
We changed the router IP address to the one dedicated for the NAS.
but I also had to switched the 2 drives around and restarted. I do not know if that was the fix or re-seating the drives made it work, but that is the procedure I did to get to run properly again.
Thanks.
We changed the router IP address to the one dedicated for the NAS.
but I also had to switched the 2 drives around and restarted. I do not know if that was the fix or re-seating the drives made it work, but that is the procedure I did to get to run properly again.
Thanks.
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