My Ciphertex NAS has failed and I want to access my data urgently.

Question:

My Ciphertex NAS has failed and I want to access my data urgently.
When I connect a NAS disk to my Windows PC, the file system format is unrecognizable. What can I do?

Answer:

If the volume is single or RAID-1 and the file system is formatted as ext3, then you can install an ext3 driver on your Windows PC to access the data on the 3rd partition of the HDD.
Example ext3 drivers: explore2fs, ext2ifs and ext2fsd.

There is no procedure for recovering any other RAID configurations.

You can refer the following links to download an ext3 driver:

http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs
http://www.fs-driver.org/
http://www.ext2fsd.com