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Joy of Joy - Successful Recovery of data from Netgear ReadyNas NV+ running X-Raid

Thanks to some digging around, logic and a failed attempt by Kroll Ontrack to recover data we have managed to recover all my data using Ubuntu and R-Studio.

Let me recap the original situation:

1 - ReadyNas NV ...

Hi all, I have a quick question, specially for people with readynas x-raid experience. If a drive get Initialized does that mean that all the data is wiped on the disk or just the MBR (or linux equivalent)...I have a horrible suspicion that one of the good drives was initialized by the readynas box.

Thanks for your suggestion Alt and also magiccm for your link...I did read your post and am eagerly awaiting your response on your success (good luck).

One of the issues that I have is that one of my RAID disks has lost its volume information and combining that with a 4th disk that is partially ...

Update

I have now imaged all 4 drives. As I said before:

Drive 1 is ok and shows 4 volumes
Drive 2 is ok but shows no volumes
Drive 3 is ok and shows 4 volumes
Drive 4 is partially corrupt but shows 4 volumes

I have tried to use the R Studio virtual RAID and obviously I am getting nowhere ...