A question of how – Mount, Find & Recover DATA in HDD outside of Synology Box
[With] a Synology … run into issues or Hard Drive corruption/ error in sectors etc. where I have had to pretty much remove the Drive which Synology refuses to read or work with. The question is, assuming I am able to detect the Hard Drive and assuming that hardware is still kind of functional, what way can I LOAD/ MOUNT the Drive (under Windows or Linux OS etc) on a PC/Laptop? (What tools/ software should I used to do that?)
Home NAS Recovery will work for you. Syngle-disk Synology is pretty standard setup. I have to recommend a PC, not a laptop. When the drive is suspected to have bad blocks, the common wisdom is that USB is to be avoided, and laptops are mostly limited to USB.
Wd Easystore Won't Mount
I restarted my MacBook Pro (OS 10.11.6) in Safe Bit mode, but it did not mount that way either. It did not shop in Disk Repair, and WD Utilities crashed in Safe mode. AldyWaani April 23, 2017, 2:45pm. I was having the same issue with my external lacie G drive not mounting but was visible in Disk utility. I tried all sorts of things and the one that worked for me was to zap the P Ram. I am on MacBook Pro, so restart the Mac hold shift+control+option+power button 10 secs. Once I had done this I logged back in and boom the drive mounted.
I’ve used several Partition Management tools and I can see 4 partitions inside the Disk as created by Synology.
That’s normal, and does not provide any significant additional information.
[various ext4 reading programs] none of which have been able to recover data (geeksnerds, stellar phoenix, linux reader, explore2fs, ext2explore, none of which allowed me to copy, recover or even see data files).
That depends on how bad the disk is damaged. Also some of these programs may be not quite compatible, especially if we are talking about modern Synology with EXT4. While EXT3 is identical to EXT2 in all respects concerning read-only driver, EXT4 is different.
[also] a Linux / RAID based solution that worked for someone, but not for me.
If Synology with its own, specifically adapted Linux, refused the disk, then most likely any stock Linux distro will also refuse the disk.
How to map a WD network drive on a Mac
In order to access and store data after setting up a WD NAS, such as: My Book Live or My Book Live Duo, My Cloud (Single Bay), My Cloud Mirror (Gen 2),My Cloud EX2 Ultra, My Cloud EX4, My Cloud EX2100 and My Cloud EX4100, My Cloud DL2100 and My Cloud DL4100 , My Cloud PR2100 and My Cloud PR4100(Multi Bay) NAS it’s best to map the network drive to one or more of the default shares.
Watch the video or follow this simple steps:
- In Finder, Click on Go in the menubar and Select Connect to Server or press ( command + K ) from keyboard
- Enter smb://devicename ( smb://wdmycloude ) and click on Connect
Note: If the mycloud device was renamed during the setup, enter “smb://newdevicename” (where newdevicename is the name the device was given)
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3. Choose the radio button Registered User and enter the Name and Password of the user with access rights to the particular share to be mapped
4. Choose a share on the drive and Click on OK
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Note: if the shared drive not appear on desktop follow this steps To show the mapped drives on the desktop open the Finder preferences (Select Finder then Preferences) and check the Connected Servers box.