ELCouz Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Hi,I have a SimpleTech SimpleShare NAS (Network Attached Drive) and i want to reuse the drive that the SimpleShare use. It's a Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB IDE 8MB 7200RPM.My question is because when i will format it to NTFS or FAT32 to make it compatible with windows it will loose his Original FileSystem. The simpleshare use a modified version of the Reiser FileSystem. Windows XP detect the drive but cannot read it until I convert it or initialized it. Is it possible to make a image of this drive so if i want to make it work in the simpleshare later (maybe a raw data disk image) or a method to reformat the drive in the modified ReiserFS?(note: the simpleshare use integrated linux & a modified version of ReiserFS , which i dont have access to that modified version on the internet (proprietary ?? dunno) and cannot read others FileSystems)[On the picture you only see 232GB , because there is data on it but unreadable by windows xp, its readable through linux using the command string but display garbage. The total storage on the disk is 250GB]Thanks!ELCouz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELCouz Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 any clue ?????grrrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 I am mystified how this thread has not had a reply before now. For this I can only apologise profusely. I cannot recall seeing it before but that is not an excuse.I cannot answer your question myself but, there are some Linux users here as well as people experienced in other operating systems so, hopefully, soon someone will be along to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Maybe this will be of use, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozofdeath Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 I'm not a big Linux user but you should be able to do this through Windows also. There are several tools that allow this like, rfstool or File system driver. Plus many backup utilities support the ReiserFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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