NAS drive on the blink - how to recover data?

[Tango Squadon]

I have a Linux based NAS drive that has given years of good service on my home network.  Unfortunately, the years must have taken their toll and now it is a case of the lights are on but nobody's home.

 

It may be possible to bring the old thing back to life but my top priority is to recover the data on the pair of 2Tb hard disks inside.  (I have the important stuff backed up elsewhere so it is not the end of the world).  

 

My question is, as it is Linux based, I guessing I can't just remove the hard disks and attach them to my Windows PC?  What are my options?

 

cheers

Rob

[CraigHew]

well I'm sure you can download something to Windows that will at least let you run a Linux drive on a separate partition.

I've never had cause to do it, but I'm sure it can be done. just Google a bit

[pistonbroke]

I used Ubuntu to recover all my files when the hdd crashed , its a bootable Linux based operating system using a USB drive .

 

Possibly worth a try    

 

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

[Blatman]

Definitely a HDD failure and not something else?

I usually pull the hard drives out of whatever they are in, slot them in to a caddy, USB them to a laptop with either Debian or Ubuntu running and see what I can see. If they spin up and can be read, copy/past onto a new HDD or DVD(s) or some other storage media.

Seen a couple of software RAID's (RAID 1's I think...) fail and appear like HDD failure but were 100% recoverable once removed.