Hi,

 

I am currently moving a lot of files around and would like to be able to plug my unRaid hard drives into my windows computer and copy the data directly across.

 

I have tried doing this however the unRaid drives are not allocated a drive letter when I plug them in (because they are in a different format?) and the only option I get is to be able to delete the volumes (which I definitely do not want to do!).

 

Is there any way of being able to read the drives when they are plugged into my windows machine?

 

PS. I have already tried using SNAP, I can mount a new drive in the server, and start to copy a few files but after a few minutes the server crashes, so I don't think this is an option.

 

Thanks for your help

 

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You don't specify what version of Windows you are using.  I've heard it said a number of times that there are/were reiserfs drivers for Windows, but never actually tried or needed them.

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rfsd/

 

It states it supports XP/2K.

Good point! Running on windows 7

Try the previous link on Win7 and see it if works.

 

If not you can also try this one.  http://yareg.akucom.de/

Someone else pointed me to TotalCommander with the ReiserFS plugin.  Haven't tried it yet but it looked to be the easiest to use to me.

Hah, I've been using TotalCommander (mainly for its great bulk renaming features) for a few years now and had no idea there was a ReiserFS plugin... thanks for the heads up!  Will definitely make use of it.

Funny, I was just about to post a topic on the exact same issue. I tried Total Commander with the ReiserFS plugin and it didn't work. It would list the drive, but I couldn't actually access it...

Funny, I was just about to post a topic on the exact same issue. I tried Total Commander with the ReiserFS plugin and it didn't work. It would list the drive, but I couldn't actually access it...

Here is post that I saw.  And technically I had the name wrong there are two plugins that Say they will read ReiserFS disks: "DiskInternals Reader" and "Ext2+ Reiser 1.6".  Did you try both?  It looks like the "Ext2+ Reiser 1.6" is suppose to work but maybe was older version.  If it works the "DiskInternals Reader" looks to be better because it can read almost any format based on specs and it's website.

I tried both. Ext2+ wouldn't even recognise that the drive was connected. DiskInternals Reader saw the drive but wouldn't let me access it..

Just for info, in case anyone looks at this: Linux Reader and YAReG both work under Win 8 64 bit. With Linux Reader you need to select the Save option. With YAReG, you need to run both the rftool and YAReG exe's as administrator.

 

I'm in the process of rebuilding my unRAID; the box has been dismantled and the hard disks have been removed. So I'm hooking them up using an IDE/SATA to USB3 Vantec adapter (yes, some disks are IDE) and using them to copy the files to my NAS. So far it seems to be working fine, although a bit slowly.

I tried both. Ext2+ wouldn't even recognise that the drive was connected. DiskInternals Reader saw the drive but wouldn't let me access it..

 

Not sure why you've had issues with the DiskInternals reader -- it absolutely works perfectly to read UnRAID disks.    Is this the download you used?  http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

... just realized how old this thread is -- I'm sure you've already resolved that access problem.  But just for reference, I think the DiskInternals LinuxReader download is by far choice for reading UnRAID disks in Windows systems ... and it's nice to have the confirmation r.e. Windows 8 functionality that sonofdbn posted.