Where are my files?..

[Parabellum]

Hello,

I have somewhat of a big problem and hope someone will have some insight.. Here is the story:

I have a D-Link DNS-323 drive enclosure with a 1 TG seagate drive. I have about 600 GB of backups. Now, what happened is that I was streaming a movie over the wireless network; it has always been working fine but the last time it was quite choppy. I tried everything I could to fix the network issue and then I gave up. So I decided to take out the drive from its drive enclosure and hook it up directly on the SATA channel. Here is the bad... I was prompted to convert the drive to a dynamic drive.. so ok... I did... don't laugh. I was then requested to format the drive

At the time, I didn't. I told myself I am better off to buy some other drives with more capacity to retreive my datas. Here is the catch, I tried with GetDataBack for FAT and NTFS and neither is able to detect my datas. I know they are there because the enclosure has some system files (500 mb or so) and they are detected with GDB for NTFS. So, I guess this is a proprietary system file specific to D-Link. I guess I might not be the only one which this had happened... This unit is meant for backups so I expect I can at least retreive my stuff...

Thanks in advance,

Serge

 

[sweloop64]

If I recall correctly, the DNS-323 uses ext2 filesystem...
Before you make any more physical changes to the disk, make a clone so that you can test stuff without the risk of making things even worse than they already are...