September 2, 20241 yr I found my server no longer working and have isolated the problem to the os thumbdrive failing. The computer has since been rebooted so nothing is accessible in RAM. The thumdrive has been inserted in various computers and nothing even sees the thumdrive, even in disk management. Not to worry, I made a backup. But on my NVME pool drive on the server. I know this was stupid, I just thought it would be trivial to access if the thumbdrive failed. I set the original thumdrive aside, reformatted a new one with raid, and started a 30 day trial. Beyond setting a password, I have not done anything else with this new configuration. Is it possible for me to access files from the nvme drive without making any changes to the existing but unaccessible array and pool?
September 2, 20241 yr Author I figured out how I could do it! Unfortunately I realized my backup was of something else (my NVME pool onto my array as it has dual parity). I do not have any backups of my USB drive and will be searching the forums on how to go from here on that. If anyone else comes across this post, here's how I did it. With a new thumbdrive I made a fresh unraid install and set it up as a trial account. I then had to install community applications and the Unassigned Devices application. To do that step I had to add assign a disk to the array and start the array. I didn't want to do that to one of my existing hard drives, but luckily I had an empty hard drive I connected just for that. The the array started on just that one drive, and with Unassigned Devices installed, I was able to individually mount each existing drive as read only to access my files.
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