Hi - Thanks for reading this..  I've had a house fire, and lost ALL of my computers except for the laptop I'm using to type this.  I had an unraid server with 6 disks.  The disks seem to be in OK condition, even though the computer basically melted around them.

 

I've bought some external drives to move the data to, and a USB drive adapter to allow me to plug in each disk one at a time to copy data from it onto the new external disks.

 

I've installed an Ubuntu VM under Win8 HyperV in hopes of mounting the drives, but I'm having no luck.  Can anyone tell me the easiest way, either with Windows, a VM, or perhaps a live disk to let me get to the data before the drives die from exposure to acidic smoke or water..

 

Thanks!

-Steve

Sorry to hear about your loss. Ubuntu should allow you to read the disks, but you will probably need to install support for it.

Try

sudo apt-get install reiser4progs reiserfsprogs

why not get a usb pen and run a live distro then look for the disc information there? running ubuntu in a vm from windows is only complicating the matter for you.

 

if ubuntu or linux mint fails (which they wont) then try a slackware distro like puppy linux

 

 

 

I've used this to connect drives to a Windows computer to read the data.

 

http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10785.msg270420#msg270420