Post by mattozan on Aug 7, 2008 6:25:53 GMT 7
My Thecus n2100 died and the RAID1 drives did not unmount gracefully.
I took them out and started trying to figure out how to recover my data from them. Two things have worked, and I thought I'd share them in case you are in the same situation:
1. www.sysresccd.org/System-tools
This live CD is recommended on the Thecus Wiki. But how exactly do you use it?
2. www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
I installed this app under Windows XP and I installed my other SATA HDD inside the Windows box.
When I ran the program, I could see my drive with three partitions. The second partition was obviously my data partition.
I tried to mount this data partition from the SATA drive , but I got an error. I tried to scan and fix the partition from inside the program, and that failed as well.
Then I tried creating an image of the partition, and mounting the image. That totally worked. Once the image was mounted, I could copy my data directly into my Windows drives on that box.
Good Luck!
I took them out and started trying to figure out how to recover my data from them. Two things have worked, and I thought I'd share them in case you are in the same situation:
1. www.sysresccd.org/System-tools
This live CD is recommended on the Thecus Wiki. But how exactly do you use it?
- I put one of my SATA HDDs into a USB enclosure. So my commands in the SystemRescue terminal window to mount it were:
mkdir /mnt/mydir
mount dev/md0 /mnt/mydir
If you can't figure out what your disk is called, look at it in GParted. It's probably either md0 (external) or sda (internal) - The first time I tried to mount, it was unsuccessful since the drive had some corruption. To repair the drive, I first had to do this:
fsck /dev/md0
It took about 10 minutes to scan and repair my 250 GB drive. - Once the drive was repaired and mounted, I used Midnight Commander to copy files from the SATA drive to a USB thumbdrive (which I also had to mount as /mnt/mydir2)
2. www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
I installed this app under Windows XP and I installed my other SATA HDD inside the Windows box.
When I ran the program, I could see my drive with three partitions. The second partition was obviously my data partition.
I tried to mount this data partition from the SATA drive , but I got an error. I tried to scan and fix the partition from inside the program, and that failed as well.
Then I tried creating an image of the partition, and mounting the image. That totally worked. Once the image was mounted, I could copy my data directly into my Windows drives on that box.
Good Luck!