QNAP Data Recovery in 2023

QNAP Data Recovery using freely available software in 2023.

The video shows how to use VirtualBox and Ubuntu Linux under Windows to read drives from a failed QNAP NAS and recover the data.

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The method shown will likely work for other NAS devices from Synology etc.

See https://ripcaster.co.uk/Data_Recovery... for detailed commands used during this video.

Equipment used:
drive from a QNAP
suitable USB drive for copying the data to
Windows Computer
Oracle Virtualbox
Ubuntu Desktop LTS
USB Drive caddy

00:00 Start
00:10 Introduction
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02:33 Data Recovery only - not randsomware etc
03:00 Tools required
03:46 USB Drive
03:55 USB Caddy
05:04 Start Setup
05:37 Remove drives from QNAP NAS & Caddy
06:57 Software Install
07:45 Download VirtualBox & Install
08:55 Download Ubuntu Desktop LTS ISO
10:01 Create Ubuntu Virtual Machine
11:22 Start Virtual Machine
13:29 Minimal Ubuntu installation
16:05 Virtual Machine Restart
17:00 Optional - Install Guest Additions
20:35 Install MDADM, LVM2, GPARTED software packages in Ubuntu
23:20 Look at gparted
23:47 Connect the USB caddy to the virtual machine
24:00 Need USB 3.0 enabled..... Reboot required
26:10 Connect to the USB drive.
26:38 Gparted view of the QNAP drive
27:40 Mount the QNAP Raid volume
32:45 Manually mount the QNAP volume
34:30 Unmount the driver from the command line
36:40 Copy data from the QNAP drive to a USB drive
38:20 Final thoughts. Thank you for watching please Like/Subscribe