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Recovering/copying data from a NAS hard drive that is "Down"?

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  • 30-11-2012 11:18am
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    I have a 3 month old WD 3TB drive in a NAS that is after showing status as down in the NAS, but the drive is okay.

    Is there any way of getting data off this drive? The techs at Zyxel (my NAS brand) have informed me i can with Ubuntu on my old xp running from a dvd bootup... (dvd of ubuntu 12 to hand and ready to go)... but not too sure on how to get at the data to export it to another hard drive?

    Any ideas... really prefer not to lose the data on the drive... i have a backup but its over 4 months old.


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    HelpWithIT
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    Firstly you need another external drive to transfer the data to, download knoppix http://knoppix.net/ or use your ubuntu, drives should appear on desktop of Knoppix, you may have to mount them, instruction on knoppix site and transfer the data to new drive, if you cannot see your old drive and access the data then you will have to go to a data recovery company - which is big bucks unfortunately!


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