Oddwunn Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Hi guys, I have been thinking, what would I do if my server were to have a catastrophic failure like a blown power supply, motherboard, RAM, etc.? During the time that my server was down waiting for new parts, how would I access my media? So the thought occurred to me, could I pull out any given data drive, install it in an external USB or eSATA enclosure, connect it to my Windows 7 machine, mount it with some sort of utility for Windows that will recognize reiserfs, and then play the media back like I would normally do? If it can be done, what utility would you recommend? Doing a Google search I found a couple of utilities for Windows XP and a few commercial products for Windows 7, but I don't know if there are different versions of reiserfs available and what version is being used by unRAID. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
ohlwiler Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 See here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2057.msg14950#msg14950 Quote Link to comment
Oddwunn Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 Thanks! I saw rfstool in my Google search, but it looks to me to be an older driver with Windows XP listed as its newest Windows OS. Will this driver work in Windows 7? Quote Link to comment
mark_anderson_us Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Anyone ever figure this out? I need to move several TB to a windows system (win8) Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 This works fine for reading your UnRAID disks in Windows: http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ ... and although it only lists up through Vista, it works perfectly in Windows 7. I haven't tried it with Windows 8, but I suspect it works there as well. Quote Link to comment
mark_anderson_us Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 This works fine for reading your UnRAID disks in Windows: http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ ... and although it only lists up through Vista, it works perfectly in Windows 7. I haven't tried it with Windows 8, but I suspect it works there as well. Thanks. Will give it a try Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Post back and confirm whether it works okay on '8 => be nice to confirm that. Quote Link to comment
mark_anderson_us Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Hopefully all my server pieces will arrive this week and I'll get it built at weekend Quote Link to comment
danofun Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I can confirm that this product does work in Windows 8. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I can confirm that this product does work in Windows 8. I was fairly certain it would; but it's nice to have it confirmed. Quote Link to comment
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