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  3. October 2008

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

Bob Cagle wrote:
Unfortunately the default drive format is a Linux flavor, according
to
the manual. It never specifies what flavor. I'm not a Linux guy, so
I
don't have a clue where to go from here.

David Gibbs wrote:
I'm going to guess that it's using the ext2 or ext3 file system.
Assuming this is true, it would probably be worth getting a copy of
Spinrite from GRC.COM to see if it >can recover the failed sectors.
Spinrite is aware of ext type file systems.

I have used Spinwrite before to recover data from a failed drive in XP,
so I already have the license. But, how well will it work with spanned
drives? I can easily put both drives into my Vista desktop box, and
then run Spinrite over them. Or does it have to be a Linux box?

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