Mount WinXP drives in Synology 1513+ ?

[GGW]

My wife's desktop PC came up with a disk error last night. It is now refusing to boot Win XP. It pulls up the Win XP logo screen and that's it. The drives are mirrored so I'm fearful that it's a virus not an actual disk problem since it seems a disk problem would be only one disk and it should still boot off of the mirrored drive??

Can I mount one or both of her drives in empty bays in my 1513+ to at least retrieve what she was working on last night when it crashed? I'm guessing these are FAT32 (it's been a few years since I touched this machine) though could be NTFS.

Any other recommendations?

Thanks

 

[azazel1024]

USB enclosure. I don't know synology OS well enough to know if it'll read FAT32 or NTFS formatted drives internally, but I believe it will over USB. I know that the native formatting is EXT4 for Synology OS.

As for the drives, it could be any number of things that are not related to a virus. They are mirrored drives, so if it is an issue on one, it'll be an issue on the other. Could be a bad update (which I assume it hasn't gotten in several years, being XP and all), something that wrote to the registry wrong before rebooting, hardware issue with the machine itself and so on.

 

[GGW]

Found an old drive to play with and it looks like the 5 internal bays will only function as DSM volumes. The external USB and eSata ports will read a driver as is. Does not appear to be a way to get the internal bays to read it as an external drive. That would have saved a lot of extra effort.

Now I just need to find an eSata>Sata cable and some way to power the drive like a cheap power supply (or maybe an esata power extension cable that I can plug in to a bay in the NAS).

 

[Cloud200]

My advice to you;
Spend $10-$20 on an external USB 3.5" enclosure and recover your data.
RAID can still fail to corruption and would STRONGLY suggest you assume the array failed for any number of reasons (including the controller going bad).

 

[stevech]

I too would use a USB enclosure drive or a large USB thumb drive.

 

[bbunge]

Try booting with a Linux live CD to read the drives. Ubuntu works very well to do this sort of rescue.

 

[TonyH]

I too would use a USB enclosure drive or a large USB thumb drive.

Hi,
+1, IMO, best simple idea. Probably this is a case of believing Raid 1 does not need back up? I hope not, no pun intended.

 

[stevech]

put the drive in a USB enclosure. Or a SATA drive dock from Newegg.com or whatever.

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
I have a USB/SATA drive open dock hanging off USB port always. When I need to use it, it is a matter of sliding in 2.5" or 3.5" drive and turn it on. Very handy checking
drives.