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Question

Swapping NAS HDD to a new NAS

Sep 9, 2016 11:32PM PDT

Hi, I have an LG NAS drive N2R1DB2 that has failed. It boots up and I can see it on the network but I can’t access the data nor log on to the admin site. Also the menu on the device itself has frozen.

I'm assuming its a complete failure therefore I am hoping to save my data by buying a new NAS (D-Link ShareCenter DNS-320L) and slotting the 2 HDD from the LG to the D-Link NAS. However I’m concerned the D-Link will want to format the HDD and I will lose all my data, will this happen?

If so can I put the HDD in to a HDD enclosure and access the data via USB? I’m assuming the data won’t be viewable via Windows as the data is saved using linux or similar but hopefully I can access it/transfer it via the D-Link USB port.

Please help?

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Re: disks
Sep 10, 2016 1:14AM PDT

That's rather unknown territory, since you don't know how the data is written on those disks on the LG device.
I'd just put these disks in an enclosure and have a look. If you want to play safe, make an image of them to another disk as the first step, although I doubt if that will have added value.

If you didn't have a backup of the data on that NAS (why not ??), it could well be they are lost.

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Hdd
Sep 10, 2016 5:56AM PDT

Put the bad hdd in an enclosure.
Connect it to your windows machine and see if you can read anything.
If no go boot up a copy of linux live cd and see if you can read anything.
If no go and the data is important it's off to a data recovery house.....expensive.

In the future it might be a good idea to put a backup of that nas disk on your P.M. schedule.

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Nod to booting other than Windows.
Sep 10, 2016 9:21AM PDT