Format/Index problem

[dropdeadcriminal]

I had 2 maxtor 250gb ide hard drives in a Netgear Storage Central (

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/NetworkStorage/SC101.aspx).

The netgear SC went down so I moved the drives into one of my desktops and they are comming up as unformatted disks. I know the information is still on there. This is where my lack of hard drive knowledge is the problem. Is this because the index files were dammaged? if so is there a way to rebuild it? if its another problem, is there a way to retreive that data?

Thanks

 

[edfair]

I don't know the specifics of the netgear hardware but suspect that they have built into their control code a different way to track the available space. And the lack of a MS type tracking system would key up the format issue when you attempt to access it.
My guess would be that the indexes are there, but it will take another netgear box to access them. And then the lower level issue, it needs to recognize the tracking system first.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[G0AOZ]

It's possible running CHKDSK /R on the drives might solve it. Or it could muck 'em up completely! Since Windows is recognising there are drives present, I'd suggest running something like GetDataBack before you try anything else.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[ArizonaGeek]

What is probably the issue is that those were in a RAID setting while in the Netgear and if you don't have a RAID card you wont be able to see any of the data. You could try setting up RAID card with either RAID 0 or RAID 1 depending on what your Netgear had set up and see if the data is readable. I'd suspect that the data may already be corrupt by having Windows try to read it with out it being in a RAID set up.

Cheers
Rob

The answer is always "PEBKAC!