PLEASE HELP! ix2-200 doesn't show drives. need to get data off.

[thedom]

Hey guys/gals,

I have an ix2-200 that all of a sudden stopped allowing me to access the drives. I could access the unit and all it would say is

"Disks Not Ready The selected function is not available due to the state of the disks."

So I removed one of the disks to see if I could put it in my computer and access from there but it has a "basic" formatting, not NTFS, so I can't access the info.

Please help me get this data off the hard drives. I have hundreds of edits for a shoot we just did (photography) and it would take uncountable hours to redo it all.


Thank you!

 

[tweakboy]

Well help you as much as we can no worries.

Firstly maybe I am the dumbo one but WTF is a ix2-200 ?

Try putting the hard drive on a XP system, and see if it is recognized... gl

 

[thedom]

This is the NAS I am talking about:

http://iomega.com/support/manuals/ix-series/221-0809/en/consolidated/main.html#ix2200


It's basically a network storage device with 2 drives you can either setup in raid 1 or not in raid for more storage. I chose raid 1 (mirrored). I don't have access to an xp machine

 

[thedom]

Here is an image of what I see:

http://postimage.org/image/8tlny57yf/full/


It is disk #2.

 

[LurchFrinky]

I'm just taking a shot here - no guarantees or anything...

Connect the hard drive to your PC.
Boot your PC using a live CD of whatever Linux distro you want (Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Puppy, Fedora...). If you don't know, this will load a full operating system without touching anything on your current disks.

Many NAS systems either are completely based off Linux, or at least use one of the Linux filesystems (there are several). Linux can see Windows partitions and files, but not the other way around.

 

[thedom]

I'm just taking a shot here - no guarantees or anything...

Connect the hard drive to your PC.
Boot your PC using a live CD of whatever Linux distro you want (Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Puppy, Fedora...). If you don't know, this will load a full operating system without touching anything on your current disks.

Many NAS systems either are completely based off Linux, or at least use one of the Linux filesystems (there are several). Linux can see Windows partitions and files, but not the other way around.

It is indeed a linux format. I am running parallels in windows 7, but can't figure out how to add the drive...is there a way to search for all drives connected to the computer?

*edit*
when I type "sudo fdisk -l" the only drive that shows up is the one parallels setup for it...

 

[Elixer]

You need to mount it, and I suppose that, that VM has options of what to mount someplace...

 

[LurchFrinky]

I may be off on the terminology, but am I correct in understanding your 'parallels' is RAID 1 and these are the only drives in your windows machine?

How did you connect the drive to your windows machine? USB? eSATA? internal SATA port? People will get different results by trying a different connection.

Did you try the other drive?

It doesn't need to be mounted to be seen by fdisk, so I think the first disk might actually be bad (or connected poorly). Once you can see a drive by fdisk, then you will need to mount it and copy the data over with whatever tools your distro uses.

 

[MerlinRML]

If your data is important, I'd recommend working with Iomega support first.

In the firmware update release notes I see things about improving RAID functions and adding support for hard drive firmware updates. It's possible that a firmware update may solve your problems, depending on which firmware you're running.