I'm trying to help a friend recover data on a WD sharepace NAS. It's configured as RAID 0 and an hard reset was done on it (which set to factory defaults and apparently wiped the drives). Is there any way to recover this? I know the data is still there on the drives but how do I get it?

I've recovered single HDDs before but never recovered a RAID set. I'm also hoping that setting the drives back up will just restore it to it's previous state (data and all) but this is possibly cluthing at straws.

Cheers,

Tim

I had a 1TB MyBook that failed to power up. After reading all the great HowTo's, I decided to use Ubuntu to do a recovery of the data on the two hard drives.

I installed Ubuntu on a spare hard drive that I had, plugged both of the MyBook hard drives into my desktop motherboard, and powered-up.

After loading the mdadm package into Ubuntu and after rebooting, Ubuntu showed the two drives and all the RAID partition information. I did all of this using the package manager in the GUI.

Ubuntu showed a 992GB Linear Array (/dev/md4) and I sucessfully mounted the drve. Opening the drive the following folders were listed…

lost+found
DATA <— I created this folder using the MyBook interface before it failed
GHOSTIMAGES <— I created this folder using the MyBook interface before it failed
PUBLIC

However, when trying to open DATA folder , Ubuntu reports that "You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents"

I'm not a familar with Ubuntu and I thinking all I need to do is change the permissions on the folder. I look at the DATA folder properties to change permissions but Ubuntu will not let me change them.

Any help on changing permissions on the folder???

John

The disk powers on, the lights are up but it doesn't respond to any services which means ssh, samba and http are all gone, so I can't run the firmware hacks. The box does respond to ping requests however.

I have managed to remove the disks and mount them to linux and the partition contents look OK, so I'm working on the assumption that the MBR might be corrupt; that the ping response is being provided by the network controller before the disk needs to boot?

Question: should it be possible to just copy the MBR image provided in the Backup Images page into first 512 bytes of the disk? Without damaging the rest of the disk contents?

Alternatively, any other theories on what might cause this behaviour?

Thank in advance

I have a MBWE with 1 1TB hard drive which is damaged. I replaced the HD with a brand new WD 1TB HD and need an image to bring it back to life (preferibly in acronis TIB format)
I am not a unix person…

Can somebody please help me ???

What I want to do is just simply transfer the current system to two new 1TB discs.

I have many-many ideas how to proceed, but I thought if you have any best practices, ideas how it could be done in the most comfortable way I'd appreciate it.

thanks, br

If anyone has done a hard reset can you tell if this is the case?

Cheers

Somehow all the data within my 3 of 5 shares were deleted, dont ask my how, i have no clue how this had happened.
The root shares (100_Movies, 200_Music, 300_Pictures) are there but all data inside the shares are gone.
So no technical defect, simply deleted.
Is there a way how i can restore the folder and files? I have connected already the HD to the PC and tried DiskInternals LinuxRecovery Tool,
but did not find anything that looks like my movies.

I'm no real linux expert, but could it be that only the "index" is destroyed and is there a command to check this.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

My complete movie collection is gone…

Thanks, c0ldsun

My english is not very good so dont blame me ;)

I have juste recover my mybook with mbr from rescue procedure and the image files from christoff4444. The other mbr fils didn't boot and the image files from rescue procedure work fine too.

But ! When I make or the systeme make a linear raid the total space see with mdadm -Q and -D is +- 748Gb and the space in /proc/mdstat is +-2980Gb. I m using 2x 1500Gb seagate drive partionned and formated like the procedure of christoff4444 and i have try all methode to make it. But my effor were fruitless and all the time I get a linear raid with +-748Gb.

For now I have mounted /dev/sda4 in /shares/internal and /dev/sdb4 in /shares/internal2 created PUBLIC, PUBLIC2 and configured to use it as share.

I guess for a driver issue or maybe a file to edit but i m not linux expert. If someone can show me the way to have a linear raid with all disk space :)

Agui

Thank's in advance,
Odim

My mybook is bricked, but I rather not delete all my data….

Thanks

The lights come up and stay blue. What does that mean?

I can ping it. But neither SSH or HTTP is working. How can I enable ssh again??

I have here two WD WE II 2TB RAID one out of the box and one is bricked.
Is it possible to bring the bricked one back to life with using the drives from the new one ?
How can this be done ?
Is it possible to this with mac os x ?
Can this be done by just doing a bit by bit copy from the new hd to the bricked one ?

Thanks

My BookWorld (1TB) died. Repair shop said that the two discs are fine (guess) and that only unit's system electronic is broken. The case is that they can not replace just electronic but the whole unit! But all I need is data. I don't care about this slow piece of …

The both disc are still spinning and I have a RAID1 configuration.

Can I just take one disc from the unit and plug it to a PC and copy my data to another location? What do I need for that? Can it be done from Windows machine?

Thank you so much!

Can I buy an extra drive to make it raid-1?? I want to backup the entire drive.

I read there should be an "Raid" option in the "Advanced" settings. I dont have this option… Maybe its only displayed when the second drive is installed?
Also, what drive should I get?

I've just managed to destroy the web gui access, after backing up all my files from the world book, and then reseting passwords. i suspect a web folder was erased accidentally during the backup.

I suspect i'll have to reimage the hard-drive, as i have none of the passwords i would need to restore it via ssh.

What is the best method therefore for restoring a 750gb-er to a pristine factory-new condition?

cheers!

Thanks

PS: please include the MBR and Boot loader

Am just wondering, will the hdds filled with data from one MBWE (blue ring) work as per normal when placed into another same model MBWE (blue ring)?

Thanks.