November 13, 201312 yr Hi All, I've been running a paid license unRAID server without incident for well over a year. Now it seems my PC no longer wants to boot. What I want to do is simply recover the data drive by drive by installing them into another PC. I installed one of the drives into a new PC build running Windows 7. I can see the drive in Computer Management under the Storage section, but it doesn't appear under Computer. None of the context sensitive menus under Storage Management seem to do anything useful. Where do I go from here? Thanks in advance.
November 13, 201312 yr The drives are formatted in ReiserFS, which Windows can't read. Install the free Linux Reader and IF the drives are good, you'll be able to read the data. http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
November 13, 201312 yr Why do you need to recover? Are you going to build a new unraid server? If yes, than simply build it, olug your drives in and boot. If you are running 4.7 you do need to know each drive location in array, if you were running v5.x it should pick up drives by it self. Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk
November 14, 201312 yr Author The drives are formatted in ReiserFS, which Windows can't read. Install the free Linux Reader and IF the drives are good, you'll be able to read the data. http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ Guess I'll have to do that. Based on this page: http://lime-technology.com/unraid-server/#unique-identifier3 where it says: "With unRAID, you have the flexibility in these situations of unplugging your healthy disks and re-inserting into another server or hooking up to a Windows or Linux machine, giving you immediate access to your data." I assumed I could plug it into a Windows machine. Why do you need to recover? Are you going to build a new unraid server? If yes, than simply build it, olug your drives in and boot. If you are running 4.7 you do need to know each drive location in array, if you were running v5.x it should pick up drives by it self. Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk I do plan to build another server in the future, but until then I'd like to have my data (movies) accessible. Also, unfortunately, I was running 4.7 without a snapshot of the drive locations, so I'm not in good shape there either. Live and learn.
November 14, 201312 yr The order the drives were in makes no difference if you're simply going to read the data in Windows. The only thing you'll encounter is that the parity drive won't be readable -- so don't be surprised that one of your drives doesn't have data on it
November 15, 201312 yr There's several free Windows programs that should read your ReiserFS partitions just fine, so gou can get data off em. I've never tried this, but they claim to work. Just google 'reiserfs windows reader' and pick your favorite.
December 29, 201312 yr Author Update: I did end up using ReiserFS to copy all of my data to another NAS. It took days and days! Through that process I was able to identify the parity drive. Eventually I decided to try the drives in another PC. I connected them to my daughters basic computer, booted with the same flash drive, configured the drives using the web interface, and voila, it was all back to normal The only anomaly is that after a few minutes, it just "goes away". I can no longer access it using the web interface or browsing in My Computer. Not sure if this is related, but the monitor shuts down as well. After changing the PSU and having nothing change, I decided to let it work on the parity check overnight. Sure enough, in the morning, it was fine. Monitor is still blank but I run it dead head anyway. So, the bottom line is, I was able to recover the data, and I was able to restore the tower. All hail unRAID. And now I'm eyeing the Lian-Li PC-Q25B Builds thread Thanks all for helping me in my hour of need and apologies for the belated reply, although in my defense, I didn't really get the thing back online until last night.
December 29, 201312 yr And now I'm eyeing the Lian-Li PC-Q25B Builds thread By far the best little box you can build for a "Plus" system ... and with 4TB drives you can have 20TB of storage in it !! [25TB with the 5TB WD Red drives that should be available "real soon now" ]
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