Hello everyone, first of all sorry this will be a little long, I’ll try to give as much details as I can.
So I'm a windows guy, but I've been reading and watching videos to get to know FreeNAS for the last two weeks trying to help a friend after his flash drive completely died, it is not recognized in any computer.
Problem is, someone who we can't find now did the installation and configuration of FreeNAS a year ago (September 2013). After reading a lot about FreeNAS I believe it is an excellent option for sharing files, but before doing a whole new setup we want to get the information from the two hard drives working with FreeNAS before, already tried auto import disks and nothing, keep getting errors as "Error getting used space" or "The selected disks were not verified for this import rule".
I did flash drives with different versions of FreeNAS from 8.2 till the last release, some of them don't even detect the disc, after the first week trying, I decided to use some Data Recovery software in Windows (like Eaesus Data Recovery, GetDataBack and a few others) but for some reason everything that is recover with any software is dated, created or modified before FreeNAS was installed, what you think this means?. I tried different file systems, everything, but I can't get any data from after FreeNAS was installed, I tried ejecting the disk from Windows as someone suggested and try FreeNAS again but nothing.
Unfortunately I can’t give any information about how this person did the setup or how the hard drives were installed, only thing I know is they were in NTFS since they were in Windows 7 before with the files my friend wanted to share.
Any suggestion will help, at this moment we will try anything, sorry again for a very long post and thank you very much.
So I'm a windows guy, but I've been reading and watching videos to get to know FreeNAS for the last two weeks trying to help a friend after his flash drive completely died, it is not recognized in any computer.
Problem is, someone who we can't find now did the installation and configuration of FreeNAS a year ago (September 2013). After reading a lot about FreeNAS I believe it is an excellent option for sharing files, but before doing a whole new setup we want to get the information from the two hard drives working with FreeNAS before, already tried auto import disks and nothing, keep getting errors as "Error getting used space" or "The selected disks were not verified for this import rule".
I did flash drives with different versions of FreeNAS from 8.2 till the last release, some of them don't even detect the disc, after the first week trying, I decided to use some Data Recovery software in Windows (like Eaesus Data Recovery, GetDataBack and a few others) but for some reason everything that is recover with any software is dated, created or modified before FreeNAS was installed, what you think this means?. I tried different file systems, everything, but I can't get any data from after FreeNAS was installed, I tried ejecting the disk from Windows as someone suggested and try FreeNAS again but nothing.
Unfortunately I can’t give any information about how this person did the setup or how the hard drives were installed, only thing I know is they were in NTFS since they were in Windows 7 before with the files my friend wanted to share.
Any suggestion will help, at this moment we will try anything, sorry again for a very long post and thank you very much.