Question Formatting NAS HDD

[KW_]

Hi,
I have 2 NAS HDD`s that I ran on a buffalo linkstation in raid 1 that I retired as it started producing errors. However, I am unable to reformat the drive as it is not recognised in windows or linux. In both of the OS, the disk simply does not show up when plugged in via an external adapter or directly via sata. In fact, windows refuses to boot with the disk plugged in at all.

Is there any way of reformatting the hard disks to be recognised ?

 

[fzabkar]

What are the model numbers?

Do the drives spin up?

 

[KW_]

What are the model numbers?

Do the drives spin up?

I have a WD green and a seagate barracuda 7200.11 which I used on seperate occasions. The drives do spin up.

 

[fzabkar]

It would appear that both drives are dead. There is a temporary fix for Seagate's BUSY (BSY) problem, but it will only allow you to recover your data. The drive should not be trusted after that.

 

[KW_]

It would appear that both drives are dead. There is a temporary fix for Seagate's BUSY (BSY) problem, but it will only allow you to recover your data. The drive should not be trusted after that.

I dont think that is true. Only one of the drives in my raid array got corrupted and the other was working just fine. But both cannot be read by windows.

 

[USAFRet]

Do they appear in Disk Management?

Do they appear in a Linux environment?

Are they connected to the host system properly? How?

 

[fzabkar]

Which is the corrupted drive?

Can you see the Partitions in DMDE (Linux or Windows)?

https://dmde.com/

Can you show us a SMART report?

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

 

[KW_]

Which is the corrupted drive?

Can you see the Partitions in DMDE (Linux or Windows)?

https://dmde.com/

Can you show us a SMART report?

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

Hello,
To clarify I have 2 WD drives and 2 Seagates drives, in both cases one of the drive failed to rebuild the array but the other one was still functioning and still is if i plug it back into my NAS.

On DMDE and crystaldiskinfo, the drives do not show up at all.