justchiara
New Member
Hello,
I have a Western Digital NAS (DL2100) that unfortunately stopped working. It has two 4TB discs (RAID1).
I'd rather not buy a new WD NAS since got no support at all from them, but I need to recover the data that's on the discs. I have a docking station with two SATA slots, but if I connect it to Windows I'm prompted to format the discs and cannot read them.
I read Linux should be able to read them, so I created a bootable USB stick and tried that. I can see the discs but it says they are 1.1GB instead of 4TB and are empty. I'm guessing it has to do with partitions... but I am a little out of my depth here.
I would appreciate any help in reading the files so I can copy them on an empty drive and then format the discs.
Thank you.
I have a Western Digital NAS (DL2100) that unfortunately stopped working. It has two 4TB discs (RAID1).
I'd rather not buy a new WD NAS since got no support at all from them, but I need to recover the data that's on the discs. I have a docking station with two SATA slots, but if I connect it to Windows I'm prompted to format the discs and cannot read them.
I read Linux should be able to read them, so I created a bootable USB stick and tried that. I can see the discs but it says they are 1.1GB instead of 4TB and are empty. I'm guessing it has to do with partitions... but I am a little out of my depth here.
I would appreciate any help in reading the files so I can copy them on an empty drive and then format the discs.
Thank you.