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My DS211J was making a beep beep noise at night time, so I turned it off as it was night time.
The next day I turned it on and 1 of the drive had a bad sector error and not working. Now I can not access the storage pool I had on it.
The second drive is being recognized and healthy.

My question is how can I get my data off it, I have tried 3 different software to see if I am able to read any of the drive and none of them can read it.
Is there any special software or way I can put it back into the NAS and it reads it so that I can quickly back up everything external?

Thanks
 
To be clear:
You have 2 HDDs and 2 single Pools/Volumes ?
Do you use a Windows/MAC/Linux PC ?

tried 3 different software
Which ones ?
 
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If this was Basic, RAID1 or SHR you should be able to boot up using either drive alone (whichever is the "good" drive).

Otherwise, you can use Linux Reader (free) to recover the drive content with a PC (I'm presuming you are ext3/4 formatted)
 
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To be clear:
You have 2 HDDs and 2 single Pools/Volumes ?
Do you use a Windows/MAC/Linux PC ?


Which ones ?
2 HDDs and 1 single volume,
Disk drill
Hard disk sentinel
Disk genius
 
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If this was Basic, RAID1 or SHR you should be able to boot up using either drive alone (whichever is the "good" drive).

Otherwise, you can use Linux Reader (free) to recover the drive content with a PC (I'm presuming you are ext3/4 formatted)
I'll try this today, just didn't have last night
 
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If this was Basic, RAID1 or SHR you should be able to boot up using either drive alone (whichever is the "good" drive).

Otherwise, you can use Linux Reader (free) to recover the drive content with a PC (I'm presuming you are ext3/4 formatted)
I have ran the software and it doesn't pick either of the drive. Am I meant to be putting them back into the NAS and connecting to the NAS? At the moment I have connected them by USB through my adapter. I might try another adatpter
 
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Adapter to PC. There are multiple partitions. The largest partition is the data partition where volumeX resides with the shared folders.
 
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Adapter to PC. There are multiple partitions. The largest partition is the data partition where volumeX resides with the shared folders.
nah the drive doesn't even pop up on any of the software. I have connected by adapter but for some reason the NAS can pick it up.
 
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Drives.webp
 
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Update, so I gave up on the adaptor, took it to the desktop and boom it's reading, but has errors but currently doing recovery. Going to take some hours. Let you know.
 
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How important is the data?
It is stored on a 14 years old device, setup in (assuming) JBOD or Raid0, without backup?
This is the perfect recipy to lose all contents.
 
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Update, I scanned the working disk and there is nothing of useful on it, I believe everything was on the second disk which can't be read,I have made byte for byte copy and it keeps saying there is nothing recoverable or deleted files, I'm using disk drill. I would have thought the NAS would have backed up on the second drive
 
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Update, so I can't installed Ubuntu 19.10, I can install the latest version. So that idea is out the window. Does anyone have any other ideas to try?.

After playing with Disk drill. 1 disk I can not read, I search for lost files or any partitions to recovery and it finds nothing.
The second disk, I can search for files, It finds hundreds but they are just thumbnails. I recovered them but they are just small previews versions.
 
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