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Access old Stora network drive via USB

Hi,

For many years, I had a Netgear Stora NAS running smoothly, but recently they have discontinued support for it, leaving me with a 1TB Mirrored brick.

I have put one of the drives in to a USB adapter and plugged in to W10.  Disk manager shows the drive a healthy, 100% free (it isn't), but with no File System. Other than Properties and taking the drive offline, there are no other available options (couldn't format, even it I wanted to)

I believe the Stora was running some kind of Linux Samba client, but maybe not across the whole drive.

Anyone know what my best chance of getting my data back will be?

Thanks

The best chance of getting the data on that drive is - Connect it to a Linux Machine.

Get a system with Linux installed on it. Preferably Ubuntu or its derivatives. You could also use OpenSUSE if you want.

And copy the data on that drive to some other drive with the NTFS file system.

Once you follow these steps you could get the data on the original drive back to you.

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Hi, I'm Elise, an independent advisor and I'd be happy to help with your issue.

If it is a mirrored drive, you can't remove it from the device and add one drive. They both need to be connected to the RAID controller in the NAS device.

You said that it is no longer supported but even so, this should not stop it working. According to the documentation, if it is connected to your router, you should be able to navigate to the management page by visiting:

http://www.mystora.com

From there you should find options to access your data.

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Elise

https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/Stora_U...

Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

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Thanks - the problem started when I changed routers, so needed to change the IP address of the device, and a long line of events lead to a factory reset, but because the device is no longer supported, the factory reset process no longer works (www.mystora.com which should get to the device on the local network returns HTTP 500).

Thanks for taking the time to investigate.

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Do you think a Mac would be "linux-y" enough to work?

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Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

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The MyStora website is no longer maintained by Netgear and they claim it will be too much trouble to restore it, so that option is no longer available to me

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