Data Recovery Help!

[brenmiester]

Hello! Long time reader, first time poster so plz be kind, oh glorious moderators <3

 

My father and I had a pre-built NAS unit (4TB Seagate, Single Drive, bad call all around haha) that crapped itself recently. I put it down to power loss issues, but I'm not entirely sure. We've ripped the hard-drive out of it, because I don't think there's much corrupted data, and we can't figure out what the file system is and don't really know where to start.

 

Can someone point me in the right direction of where to go? Is this something we really should be taking on ourselves or should we go to a data recovery service (we would rather not, money's quite tight at the moment)

 

Thanks in advance 

[Kilrah]

Filesystem will depend on the NAS used, you didn't mention it. 

Some use an FS that can be mounted on linux, some not.

[3rrant]

6 minutes ago, brenmiester said:

Hello! Long time reader, first time poster so plz be kind, oh glorious moderators <3

 

My father and I had a pre-built NAS unit (4TB Seagate, Single Drive, bad call all around haha) that crapped itself recently. I put it down to power loss issues, but I'm not entirely sure. We've ripped the hard-drive out of it, because I don't think there's much corrupted data, and we can't figure out what the file system is and don't really know where to start.

 

Can someone point me in the right direction of where to go? Is this something we really should be taking on ourselves or should we go to a data recovery service (we would rather not, money's quite tight at the moment)

 

Thanks in advance 

Depends on how important the data is. If it's crucial, seek a professionist. Cost will be the smallest problem.

If it is important but you also don't really need it for life and wan't to risk more on yourself, there are several recovery tools (paid) that can try to recover data. Software is harder to recover than videoes which are harder than images which are harder than plain text.. your chances of recovery depends on this and a lot of other factors.

 

Filesystem depends on the NAS used.

[BobVonBob]

By NAS unit do you mean something like a Synology NAS or just an external hard drive? If it was a full NAS, it likely ran some flavor of Linux using the ext3/4 file system, which you could easily access by live booting Linux assuming the drive wasn't the part that failed. If it was just an external hard drive then the drive is probably the part that failed, in which case you're out of luck and a drive recovery service is probably your only option.