Re: Western Digital My Book World Edition II NAS device- crashed? -- PCTECH

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Subject: Re: Western Digital My Book World Edition II NAS device- crashed?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:41:27 -0500
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Chuck Lewis wrote:

Download a copy of Knoppix. It is a bootable copy of Linux. You would
have to have your hard drive(s) in a PC that had a CD drive in it. It's
free and might be worth a shot to see if it can read the drives.

Yeah, at least run a non-destructive file system check (assuming they can be mounted). If the file system is readable and it's just a bad sector, Spinrite might be able to recover it.

david

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