Hi. Here is a quick guide hot to reocer 16kb blocksize partitions. The first part is just an intro scroll down lower to the tutuorial.
--- Whats 16kb blocksize mean??
Even though i knew about blocksizes in the days of using DOS 3.x - this came abit of a shock to me.
In those days we have FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and you could set how to format your hard dirve with block sizes varying from 64bytes to 4kilobytes. Whats the difference. In those days nothing because the biggest hard drive was 500MegaBytes. THe bigger the block size in essense the faster you can write/read data (so it reads/writes 4kb blocks)
So i came across a NETGEAr ReadyNAS DUO - The hard drive failed inside - did not power on. I did my recovery tricks and fixed the logic baord. Using recovery software (not easyrecovery or recoverymyfiles) Its a software/hardware bundles recvoery solution i accesed the drive and saw 1 partition. 256mb.. hmmm on a 500gb hard drive. There where only linux files on there.
I plugged it back into the NAS box- knowing it was a NETGEAR, which i hate and know it jsut does what it pleases. I was stressing that it doesnt decide to format the disk / or recreate an array or something stupid that netgear usually does.
It booted up and started its disc scan procedure - where the blue power led pulsated like a progress indicator and the act light ever so ofter flashed with activity on the HDD (format OMFG!? luckily not)
This took 18 hours! once again i cant stress enough how effed up netgeat nas boxes are.
Fantastic- the next day the power led is solid blue - but no HDD is mounted- using their RAIDar tools i could not find any devies neither did my DHCP server indicate a leased IP to the box. It froze...
Stuff it.I went onto the readynas forums and started ranting about this piece of NASA equipment they made and how i cant recvoer the data.
Some cool dude replied to my threas with a link
by John Bean » Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:23 am
--- Whats 16kb blocksize mean??
Even though i knew about blocksizes in the days of using DOS 3.x - this came abit of a shock to me.
In those days we have FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and you could set how to format your hard dirve with block sizes varying from 64bytes to 4kilobytes. Whats the difference. In those days nothing because the biggest hard drive was 500MegaBytes. THe bigger the block size in essense the faster you can write/read data (so it reads/writes 4kb blocks)
So i came across a NETGEAr ReadyNAS DUO - The hard drive failed inside - did not power on. I did my recovery tricks and fixed the logic baord. Using recovery software (not easyrecovery or recoverymyfiles) Its a software/hardware bundles recvoery solution i accesed the drive and saw 1 partition. 256mb.. hmmm on a 500gb hard drive. There where only linux files on there.
I plugged it back into the NAS box- knowing it was a NETGEAR, which i hate and know it jsut does what it pleases. I was stressing that it doesnt decide to format the disk / or recreate an array or something stupid that netgear usually does.
It booted up and started its disc scan procedure - where the blue power led pulsated like a progress indicator and the act light ever so ofter flashed with activity on the HDD (format OMFG!? luckily not)
This took 18 hours! once again i cant stress enough how effed up netgeat nas boxes are.
Fantastic- the next day the power led is solid blue - but no HDD is mounted- using their RAIDar tools i could not find any devies neither did my DHCP server indicate a leased IP to the box. It froze...
Stuff it.I went onto the readynas forums and started ranting about this piece of NASA equipment they made and how i cant recvoer the data.
Some cool dude replied to my threas with a link
Re: ReadyNAS Duo Crashed and cant get data :( Please help
by John Bean » Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:23 am
i almost thought i would have to do a full distro install
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