QNAP drive
by Antjac from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5SZB8)
Hello,
I hope someone can help me with this, or point me in the right direction.
I had an issue with my home NAS which runs UBUNTU as its base language, set up as JBOD array, 4 drives, 10TB
Because of the issue I had, I tried to interrogate the 'first' drive with a HDD docking device and inadvertently formatted the drive in GPT? Anyhow, it now shows up as NTFS which is not recognised in the server any longer and denying the rest of the drives being read in the JBOD array, due to the logical clamp being removed / destroyed?
I have not written to any of them, so am confident all the data is retrievable, as I'm now in recovery territory, but would like to know if there is anyway I can recover the mdadm structure, for the first drive only, so all four drives can be read as one JBOD array.
Is it possible to get rid of the NTFS partition tier and restore the original Linux partition, so I can employ the use of some RAID recovery software ?
I do not have any backups, but have another similar sized unit ready to dump anything on.
I have contacted CGsecurity, for TestDisk, who were great, but before I proceed with their advice, I'm hoping there is someone who might have some experience in this, being a Linux based drive?
I thankyou in anticipation...
I hope someone can help me with this, or point me in the right direction.
I had an issue with my home NAS which runs UBUNTU as its base language, set up as JBOD array, 4 drives, 10TB
Because of the issue I had, I tried to interrogate the 'first' drive with a HDD docking device and inadvertently formatted the drive in GPT? Anyhow, it now shows up as NTFS which is not recognised in the server any longer and denying the rest of the drives being read in the JBOD array, due to the logical clamp being removed / destroyed?
I have not written to any of them, so am confident all the data is retrievable, as I'm now in recovery territory, but would like to know if there is anyway I can recover the mdadm structure, for the first drive only, so all four drives can be read as one JBOD array.
Is it possible to get rid of the NTFS partition tier and restore the original Linux partition, so I can employ the use of some RAID recovery software ?
I do not have any backups, but have another similar sized unit ready to dump anything on.
I have contacted CGsecurity, for TestDisk, who were great, but before I proceed with their advice, I'm hoping there is someone who might have some experience in this, being a Linux based drive?
I thankyou in anticipation...