OK, so i had a crappy thecus raid nas and it stopped working. So as it was mirrored, I thought if i bought an external enclosure and put one of the hdds in, it would work... no.
Windows goes, your device is ready for use, but it doesnt come up in my computer.. I have tried with both hdds that were in the nas and nup.
Anyone got any ideas..?
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hi mate,
if it was mirrored by raid it should just plug in and you should be able to see the data on it.
sometimes windows can be a pain in the ass so Try:
Right click my computer > manage > Disk Management (here is where all of the HDD's in your computer are, at the top you will have a list of the drives, find out which of the hdd's is the one and you should see a drive letter next to it, then go:
Start > Run > Drive Letter : \ (E.g: C:\ ) and press enter, that should open the hard drive up.
If that dosen't work, maybe take a screen print of the Disk Management screen and post it up and i'll see if i can help anymore.
if it was mirrored by raid it should just plug in and you should be able to see the data on it.
sometimes windows can be a pain in the ass so Try:
Right click my computer > manage > Disk Management (here is where all of the HDD's in your computer are, at the top you will have a list of the drives, find out which of the hdd's is the one and you should see a drive letter next to it, then go:
Start > Run > Drive Letter : \ (E.g: C:\ ) and press enter, that should open the hard drive up.
If that dosen't work, maybe take a screen print of the Disk Management screen and post it up and i'll see if i can help anymore.
QUOTE (1996-pajero @ Jul 26 2009, 01:03 AM) 
hi mate,
if it was mirrored by raid it should just plug in and you should be able to see the data on it.
sometimes windows can be a pain in the ass so Try:
Right click my computer > manage > Disk Management (here is where all of the HDD's in your computer are, at the top you will have a list of the drives, find out which of the hdd's is the one and you should see a drive letter next to it, then go:
Start > Run > Drive Letter : \ (E.g: C:\ ) and press enter, that should open the hard drive up.
If that dosen't work, maybe take a screen print of the Disk Management screen and post it up and i'll see if i can help anymore.
if it was mirrored by raid it should just plug in and you should be able to see the data on it.
sometimes windows can be a pain in the ass so Try:
Right click my computer > manage > Disk Management (here is where all of the HDD's in your computer are, at the top you will have a list of the drives, find out which of the hdd's is the one and you should see a drive letter next to it, then go:
Start > Run > Drive Letter : \ (E.g: C:\ ) and press enter, that should open the hard drive up.
If that dosen't work, maybe take a screen print of the Disk Management screen and post it up and i'll see if i can help anymore.
yeah, that's what i though too, but it's not coming up, here is disk management screenshot.. the hdd is disk 4.
Oh...umm... if you havent tried it already try right clicking on the drive and go "change drive letter path" and go through the wizzard.
Hey mate,
It sounds like RAID failure put you in a bit of pickle... If your RAID stopped working due to hardware fault (not Hdd itself but RAID card or chipset) it might be very difficult to access the information on hdd as hard drive themselves do not hold RAID information. That's why the external enclosure didn't work for you as it does not hold RAID information for the hdd.
Just to clarify, did you originally have Disk 3 and 4 on RAID 1 and RAID died and you can't access disk 4??
You might have to get yourself a RAID reconstruction or recovery software.
It sounds like RAID failure put you in a bit of pickle... If your RAID stopped working due to hardware fault (not Hdd itself but RAID card or chipset) it might be very difficult to access the information on hdd as hard drive themselves do not hold RAID information. That's why the external enclosure didn't work for you as it does not hold RAID information for the hdd.
Just to clarify, did you originally have Disk 3 and 4 on RAID 1 and RAID died and you can't access disk 4??
You might have to get yourself a RAID reconstruction or recovery software.
QUOTE (systemcrasher @ Jul 28 2009, 04:08 PM)
Hey mate,
It sounds like RAID failure put you in a bit of pickle... If your RAID stopped working due to hardware fault (not Hdd itself but RAID card or chipset) it might be very difficult to access the information on hdd as hard drive themselves do not hold RAID information. That's why the external enclosure didn't work for you as it does not hold RAID information for the hdd.
Just to clarify, did you originally have Disk 3 and 4 on RAID 1 and RAID died and you can't access disk 4??
You might have to get yourself a RAID reconstruction or recovery software.
It sounds like RAID failure put you in a bit of pickle... If your RAID stopped working due to hardware fault (not Hdd itself but RAID card or chipset) it might be very difficult to access the information on hdd as hard drive themselves do not hold RAID information. That's why the external enclosure didn't work for you as it does not hold RAID information for the hdd.
Just to clarify, did you originally have Disk 3 and 4 on RAID 1 and RAID died and you can't access disk 4??
You might have to get yourself a RAID reconstruction or recovery software.
One of the raid disks is disk 4, I just put it into an external enclosure and plugged it in via usb, the other disk is sitting on my desk. I have spoken to the raid enclosure manufacturer and they have told me it's stored in a linux file system so apparently windows wont be able to recognise, weird as when I plug it into a vista machine it says 'healthy partition' in disk management, and when I mount it on a linux vm nothing happens. But I think the raid has failed on the device like you have said cuz I've run a linux filesystem raid recovery program on it, and it can't find the partitions(I think.. kinda hard to track exactly where its failing atm).
Just sucks cuz it's full of tv shows and I really don't want to have to try get them again..
Attached is a pic of sector 1 which is where the mbr is(I think..?). And I'm not sure if that's how it's meant to look with all those '0's.. So it's seeming pretty stuffed atm.
QUOTE (n_one @ Jul 28 2009, 06:22 PM)
I have spoken to the raid enclosure manufacturer and they have told me it's stored in a linux file system so apparently windows wont be able to recognise, weird as when I plug it into a vista machine it says 'healthy partition' in disk management, and when I mount it on a linux vm nothing happens. But I think the raid has failed on the device like you have said cuz I've run a linux filesystem raid recovery program on it, and it can't find the partitions(I think.. kinda hard to track exactly where its failing atm).
Just sucks cuz it's full of tv shows and I really don't want to have to try get them again..
Attached is a pic of sector 1 which is where the mbr is(I think..?). And I'm not sure if that's how it's meant to look with all those '0's.. So it's seeming pretty stuffed atm.
Just sucks cuz it's full of tv shows and I really don't want to have to try get them again..
Attached is a pic of sector 1 which is where the mbr is(I think..?). And I'm not sure if that's how it's meant to look with all those '0's.. So it's seeming pretty stuffed atm.
Windows Disk Management will see the disk as healthy partition despite the fact that RAID info might be stuffed up, but you can't access it until you format it..... When you mount it on the Linux VM, are you mounting it as RAID or individual hdd??
You can either try to rebuild the MBR or try to do a raw data recovery within either Linux or Windows. Usually with raw data recovery, it bypasses the MBR. But it won't keep the directory structure or file names and recovering 450gigs will probably take you 2-3 days.
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