Yesterday a Seagate HDD on DS115j failed (started clicking and then system responded with no DSM is installed).
I had a different 3 TB hard drive which I swapped in, installed new DSM, and then connected external USB containing my backups from NAS and recovered to last backup (Monday).
The question is whether anything is possible with failed hard drive (as there is some data from Monday until now that I would love to have).
- connecting failed hard drive to NAS , it recognizes something is there but does not see anything data (I have not created any new shared folders out of desire not to manipulate anything on failed hard drive )
- connecting failed hard drive to a spare Ubuntu machine (v 14) and running gparted gives me a input/output error
- running Seagate Seatools shows that hard drive passes "basic checks".
my limitations
- Linux machine I have does not have capacity to take full image of failed 3 TB hard drive (of which ~600Gb were used) with something like ddrescue
- my knowledge of Linux is limited, user not power user/admin
- looked into UFS explorer tool (willing to pay) but am not sure yet it would work and do not want to take rush actions. also 99% of my data is already recovered from backup
thoughts, suggestions, avenues of further review? should I try to read up more on DSM and present external disk back to the original NAS ? is Linux/Ubuntu better avenue to review?
Thank you
I had a different 3 TB hard drive which I swapped in, installed new DSM, and then connected external USB containing my backups from NAS and recovered to last backup (Monday).
The question is whether anything is possible with failed hard drive (as there is some data from Monday until now that I would love to have).
- connecting failed hard drive to NAS , it recognizes something is there but does not see anything data (I have not created any new shared folders out of desire not to manipulate anything on failed hard drive )
- connecting failed hard drive to a spare Ubuntu machine (v 14) and running gparted gives me a input/output error
- running Seagate Seatools shows that hard drive passes "basic checks".
my limitations
- Linux machine I have does not have capacity to take full image of failed 3 TB hard drive (of which ~600Gb were used) with something like ddrescue
- my knowledge of Linux is limited, user not power user/admin
- looked into UFS explorer tool (willing to pay) but am not sure yet it would work and do not want to take rush actions. also 99% of my data is already recovered from backup
thoughts, suggestions, avenues of further review? should I try to read up more on DSM and present external disk back to the original NAS ? is Linux/Ubuntu better avenue to review?
Thank you