The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/_ch13 on 2024-07-11 14:36:39.
I am trying to help my friend to salvage data from a disk that failed. It's an old drive, and it appears that there are too many bad sectors that it is no longer detectable by his WD Cloud (or whatever it is called).
I have a QNAP TS-453Be with 2 free bays that I plan to use as the machine to do the salvaging work - the bad drive in a bay, and another for the drive to store the recovered files - as I expect the job to take a long time. I ran the Windows version of PhotoRec briefly and managed to recover a couple of files from it. But it would take a few weeks to finish, so I gave up as my PC would take up too much power, and I didn't have a good setup to hold the disk properly (small case, and now the PC is sold).
Since I have Ubuntu installed on the NAS, I am wondering if it is possible to ran the job on it (there is a Linux version), without initialising the source disk in QNAP (some kind of passthrough to Ubuntu?).
Does anyone have a similar experience? I tried to search for data recovery using NAS, but it is challenging to sift though threads about the other kind of attempt, i.e. to recover data from failed NAS.
Appreciate any inputs.