[SOLVED] RAID drives now unreadable??

[TitusPullo]

So I have two Seagate HDDs, both identical, set up as RAID drives on a Netgear ReadyNAS for backup purposes. It worked great for two years, then recently crapped out. I cannot access the ReadyNAS at all and it may well be that piece of hardware is toast. So I figured I would plug the HDDs into a USB HDD hub (https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-External-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B07GXK1CGP) to try and get my data.

When I do so, both HDDs show up as unreadable (insert disk) under Windows Explorer.

What am I doing wrong? I would plug these HDDs into my motherboard but I'm already running four HDDs on the mobo so I'd rather go the hub route than start swapping out SATA drives on the motherboard. Or is that the next and unavoidable step??

 

[kanewolf]

So I have two Seagate HDDs, both identical, set up as RAID drives on a Netgear ReadyNAS for backup purposes. It worked great for two years, then recently crapped out. I cannot access the ReadyNAS at all and it may well be that piece of hardware is toast. So I figured I would plug the HDDs into a USB HDD hub (https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-External-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B07GXK1CGP) to try and get my data.

When I do so, both HDDs show up as unreadable (insert disk) under Windows Explorer.

What am I doing wrong? I would plug these HDDs into my motherboard but I'm already running four HDDs on the mobo so I'd rather go the hub route than start swapping out SATA drives on the motherboard. Or is that the next and unavoidable step??

Probably nothing. The drives probably have a LINUX file system formatting. And if they were formatted as a RAID0, then each drive has 1/2 the data.
I don't know if the ReadyNAS encrypts drives by default.
I would start by booting a portable Linux CD and seeing if you can read the drive then.

 

[TitusPullo]

Probably nothing. The drives probably have a LINUX file system formatting. And if they were formatted as a RAID0, then each drive has 1/2 the data.
I don't know if the ReadyNAS encrypts drives by default.
I would start by booting a portable Linux CD and seeing if you can read the drive then.

So I tried running Disk Internal Linux Reader and it does not recognize either RAID drive (doesn't even display them, whereas at least Windows shows them as blank unreadable USB HDDs).

I will try booting to Linux on a portable USB thumb drive next, though I have never ever used Linux before so not sure I am doing this right.

 

[kanewolf]

So I tried running Disk Internal Linux Reader and it does not recognize either RAID drive (doesn't even display them, whereas at least Windows shows them as blank unreadable USB HDDs).

I will try booting to Linux on a portable USB thumb drive next, though I have never ever used Linux before so not sure I am doing this right.

If you aren't Linux literate, maybe you shouldn't. You could do more damage than good.
I don't have a ReadyNAS, so I am just providing generic info. Have you looked through the Netgear board -- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Us...o-recover-data-from-RAID-1-disks/td-p/1102323

 

[fzabkar]

You could try the free version of DMDE:

https://dmde.com/

DMDE can assemble a virtual RAID. It should also be able to autodetect the RAID parameters.

Can you show us the Partitions windows in DMDE?