July 24, 201510 yr I just had my motherboard fail. I'd thought I'd only lost a power supply, but a new supply did nothing for me and all other components (CPU, RAM) work well on other systems. I need the data right away, and THOUGHT that I could just pull a drive or multiple drives and put it (them) in another computer (hot-swap bay), but apparently this does not work and Unraid is required to read the drive. Is this correct? So, it seems my next step is to replace the motherboard and get the array back and running in order to recover the data - is this correct?
July 24, 201510 yr It is possible to read the drives in another system without unRAID, but it needs to be able to read ReiserFS (assuming unRAID v5) volumes. Many Linux systems will be able to read them, but if you want to read them on Windows, for example, then you will have to install some additional software. I haven't tried this, but maybe this would work.
July 24, 201510 yr Author Thank you -- I'll give this a shot on my Windows machine and report back...
July 24, 201510 yr Author That program (DiskInternals Linux Reader 2.2) is working - thank you! It takes a VERY long time to read the file tree, but it does read everything. I haven't copied anything with it yet -- I'm still trying to find the correct disk.
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