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I'll probably do that if @seagate_surfer's suggestion doesn't work. It's the only thing I haven't tried

Taking ownership hasn't worked it seems from the properties menu that it can only access 1GB of the drive which appears to be the firmware folder. It's using ext3/ext4 as it's filesystem.

I've gotten hold of a caddy, and I'm dual booting Ubuntu on my laptop. It can read the drive, but I can't go into anything but the firmware folder as I'm "not the owner". Is there any way to brute force this to let me into the rest of the drive?

I've tried booting into Linux in multiple ways and usually ends up with either a panic or a black screen hang. The error is usually related to PCIe from what I can tell. If I get my hands on a HDD caddy (which I think I know someone who has one), I'll try getting them off the drive on my laptop using Linux. But in case I can't do that, will I be able to somehow mount the drive inside of a VM?

No, not yet as the only PC I have that will connect to it refuses to install Ubuntu, having a kernel panic during installation.

Thank you very much for the suggestion, I will give it a try.

I did try that, but the NAS did not boot even after I checked everything.

I know it's one of the two as I used a scanner that only supported those two and it could find the drive.

If I boot into Linux, can I retrieve the files and copy them onto my hard drive?

It depends on what country the power supply is coming from. Different countries use different power grid voltages, currents and frequencies. A plug converter should do the trick, just make sure it can handle a PC's power draw.

I guess another idea bites the dust. It can't read the drive.

I'll give it a try, hopefully it can recover the stuff on there. Is there a recovery limit? I think i had about 28GB of stuff on there.

I've used a couple of scanners, and the data is definitely there, it's just that the scanners I've used all need some sort of license to recover it.

It's a dead drive. When put back into the NAS it makes a horrible scraping noise, I think the head's crashed or something. The remaining drive is fine, it's just that something's gone wrong and the NAS has gone into emergency mode. The NAS I have is advertised as being able to rebuild itself if a drive fails so I'm not sure what's going on.

Unless the software is really cheap I will probably have to go with the free one you've mentioned.