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niepelm   08-08-2009 at 02:01:16 AM

I recently deleted some files from a D-Link NAS DNS-323. It's a dual drive NAS and it was set up in a RAID 1 setup.

Since all the 'undelete' utilities I tried to use are unable to detect mounted NAS drives, I decided to try and connect the disk drive through a SATA->USB2 external enclosure.

Unfortunately, this is not working as planned either. While the disk shows up in the device manager (listed as 'ST332062 0AS USB Device'), it does not have a drive letter assigned, nor does it show up under 'My Computer'.

I have three questions:

1) Is there a utility that can undelete files directly from a NAS?

2) Can I read a hard drive that is formatted by the D-Link NAS DNS-323 in an external enclosure or does this format prevent it from being detected as a normal external drive.

3) Is there any other was I could recover the files.

The files I deleted are pictures that I just recently added to the NAS, so they were not backed up yet.

Thanks for your help.

PS: I am running Windows XP.

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I can answer questions 2 and 3.

I had this same problem only a few weeks ago with my DNS-323.

I removed the two drives from my DNS-323 and plugged one into an external box, which was attached to a desktop running Windows XP SP3. [the drives were mirrored (RAID 1), so the contents on each drive was the same].

I installed a nifty little freeware onto the desktop called "Linux_Reader", by DiskInternals. It reads the EXT2/3 formatted NAS drives and displays the contents in your windows folders.....just as if it was an NTFS drive. You can then cut/copy/move files from your NAS drives to a drive on your desktop.

The freeware can be downloaded form here:
http://www.download3k.com/Install- [...] eader.html

I can't remember the exact steps I used to configure the software, but it was very easy (and i'm not very IT savvy).

Cheers,
Ian.
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IanS   08-08-2009 at 01:51:37 PM
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I can answer questions 2 and 3.

I had this same problem only a few weeks ago with my DNS-323.

I removed the two drives from my DNS-323 and plugged one into an external box, which was attached to a desktop running Windows XP SP3. [the drives were mirrored (RAID 1), so the contents on each drive was the same].

I installed a nifty little freeware onto the desktop called "Linux_Reader", by DiskInternals. It reads the EXT2/3 formatted NAS drives and displays the contents in your windows folders.....just as if it was an NTFS drive. You can then cut/copy/move files from your NAS drives to a drive on your desktop.

The freeware can be downloaded form here:
http://www.download3k.com/Install- [...] eader.html

I can't remember the exact steps I used to configure the software, but it was very easy (and i'm not very IT savvy).

Cheers,
Ian.

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niepelm   08-08-2009 at 03:47:48 PM

Thank you very much, Ian. I ended up purchasing the DiskInternals Uneraser, which solved both the mounting of the RAID 1 drive and the recovery of the files in one fell swoop. Worth the $39.95!

Best... mario

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farlen26   09-11-2009 at 05:49:04 AM

niepelm wrote :

Thank you very much, Ian. I ended up purchasing the DiskInternals Uneraser, which solved both the mounting of the RAID 1 drive and the recovery of the files in one fell swoop. Worth the $39.95!

Best... mario



Can you provide more details of your experience. I have the exact same problem and purchased DiskInternals Uneraser and connected 1 of the drives to my pc directly through a usb to sata cable.
The program detects it and it lists the folders at the root but when I double click it does not show any files. Can you help?

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