Comments on SteveCo: Recovering data from a HP Media Vault

Thanks as well! I've got an MV2010 and was ab...

2011-05-28T01:02:24.212-05:00

Thanks as well! I've got an MV2010 and was able to get it up and running with Ubuntu. 'preciate the post!

Absolutely fantastic! Worked like a charm. The m...

2011-04-12T21:29:17.471-05:00

Absolutely fantastic! Worked like a charm. The motherboard on my MediaVault died. Fortunately, about a month prior, I had purchased a PC with 2TB of disk space. I had already split it into 1TB apiece for Windows and Ubuntu. So I had plenty of space on my PC hard disk to copy all the data from my MediaVault.

I'm in the process of recovering family photos, important records, movies, and music.

Thank you so much for sharing this! I can't properly communicate how important this information was.

Thank you very much! That was exactly what I neede...

2011-04-10T02:22:29.506-05:00

Thank you very much! That was exactly what I needed to save the data from my father's broken NAS. :-)

That's how I figured out that I was looking fo...

2011-03-23T20:25:33.940-05:00

That's how I figured out that I was looking for a magic string "ReIsEr2Fs" (or "ReIsErFs" for version 1, or "ReIsEr3Fs" for version 3, according to some other search results).
database in recovery.com

Just great guys! Thank you Thank you Thank You for...

2011-01-25T17:31:18.960-06:00

Just great guys! Thank you Thank you Thank You for helping me rescue my data from a died ASUS WL-700gE router.

You don't know how you have helped me and my f...

2011-01-20T08:29:59.773-06:00

You don't know how you have helped me and my family.

All my photos, family video's, contracts, documents..... All of my "digital-live" was on my mv2010 (RAID-1) NAS Server.

HP said me this product was obsolete and they deny to help me in any way.

Following your step by step instructions and adding the notes from "PoliticAl2008"..... I have recovered all my information with an Ubuntu 10.10 "live-cd". No changes at the instructions from PoliticAl2008.

Great, great, great...

Congratulations and a lot of kind thanks.

Thanks a lot, you saved all of my website backup s...

2010-10-17T03:41:14.854-05:00

Thanks a lot, you saved all of my website backup stored in my disk

Oh my! You sure saved my day. I had a broken board...

2010-09-18T15:51:22.302-05:00

Oh my! You sure saved my day. I had a broken board on my WD Netcenter (320GB), but the disk was fine, according to the SMART info. I had no idea how to retrieve the data, until I saw this post. I love you!

Thank you for this post, it was extremely helpful....

2010-08-26T09:51:49.694-05:00

Thank you for this post, it was extremely helpful. It worked "as is" for recovering a disk from an ASUS WL-700gE. The offset on the device was exactly the same. I found your post because I started out the same way you did and did a google search for "Broadcom NAS Version 1.1 MBR".

Thanks again, Ken.

Would anyone here that has done this successfully ...

2010-06-30T08:35:02.352-05:00

Would anyone here that has done this successfully want to get paid for working on recovering data from my drive?
I am about to send it to a data recovery center that charges between 200 - 800 (if they get the data recovered) and I'd be willing to pay up to 300 USD to get my data recovered.

Hi, I am also getting this error: mount: wrong fs ...

2010-06-29T22:14:44.157-05:00

Hi, I am also getting this error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

p.s. When I searched for ReIsEr in HexEdit, I found, in this order:
....ReIsErLB....
....ReIsEr2Fs...
....ReIsEr2Fs...

I tried all three locations, but no luck.

2010-06-29T22:13:18.139-05:00

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Hello, I am having the same problem as others in t...

2010-06-05T03:19:04.048-05:00

Hello, I am having the same problem as others in that it won't do the mount. When i do a "mount -t auto" it says: mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member'

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I didn't see any response to the others so I am not sure if you are still following this thread.

I must say thank you as well. A customer brought ...

2010-03-16T17:02:15.153-05:00

I must say thank you as well. A customer brought in this unit, and with your help and the tool provided I was able to return over 4300 files for the customer.

Now, if I can only get the customer to make backups...

Mavrick, I'm no expert, but make sure you have support for ReiserFS installed in your Linux with that error. I used the Gerarad Robinson tool at the bottom of this page:
http://k0lee.com/hpmediavault/diskformat/ to find mine. I hope this helps.

Thank You Everyone for your Time and Effort;

Billy

Hi Steve, Thanks for the info. I fear I must be a...

2010-01-28T17:06:10.605-06:00

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the info.

I fear I must be a tard because I'm following your steps but I get

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

No love here. I found what I believe to be the superblock in both drives but I receive he same error when trying to mount.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks
Charles

Thanks PoliticAl2008 for this!!!! so chuffed that ...

2010-01-28T07:26:49.370-06:00

Thanks PoliticAl2008 for this!!!! so chuffed that i'm over half way to getting all my data back!!! this worked on the 1st drive in the NAS

i had to change point 5. to get it to work for me... (added 'sudo')

5. Get into hexedit for /dev/sdb
* Type: sudo hexedit /dev/sdb

I have now got a real nightmare, i had a 2nd drive in my MV2010 and when i thought it was wrecked, i took out the 2nd drive and put it in a Netgear NAS, which started to 'initialise'!!! i quickly stopped it but i think it may have started to format the drive as when i look at the hex code on the drive... everything as far as i can see is 00000000.... does anyone know anything i can do in this case? not sure where to go on this now.... cheers.... N

Excellent resource for the help with upgrading!! ...

2010-01-07T21:21:38.514-06:00

Excellent resource for the help with upgrading!! That is *exactly* what I needed!! Thanks a bunch!

Hi Steve -- Excellent job! Big THANKS for...

2010-01-07T18:26:49.816-06:00

Hi Steve --

Excellent job!
Big THANKS for helping me saving (read 'recovering') my butt, i.e. the collection of family pictures and documents.

TomB

Hi Steve, I'm not sure if you're still liv...

2009-11-18T11:55:04.533-06:00

Hi Steve, I'm not sure if you're still live on this but here goes. I'm working on behalf of a friend with a mv2020 that is no longer functioning and accessible. All I'm trying to do is get his data off to another device (very important!) and then I plan to fit this unit with concrete shoes and send it off over the Tobin Bridge!

I've referenced this blog and Lee Devlin's and have a Linux host to use. Obviously, I'm unable to directly mount the secondary 500GB drive in Linux but using the automated script from Gerard Robinson I receive the following output:

woodman@snotter:~$ ./mntmv1 /dev/sdb

ReiserFS superblock found at 512006144.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

When I run reiserfsck on this drive it terminates immediately telling me to run reiserfsck --rebuild-sb. With the non-standard location of the superblock in this implementation of reiserfs the prospect of doing this scares me. What do you all think?

Also, I removed the primary 500GB drive and did these same steps after slotting it in my Linux host, same exact result in trying to mount or running reiserfsck. The NAS unit itself may have taken a power hit, when I power it up I don't get any LEDs such as "OK" or the network light. The power button light does come on. I can't power it off using the switch, no response. It doesn't get on the network and the 10 sec press of the reset yields no visible result. The power supply outputs the expected 5 and 12 VDC. Do you think the drives might come up in a known good NAS?

Thanks so much in advance, you guys rock and far exceed HP's ability to provide sage advice!

-Jeff

Hi Steve, I'm not sure if you're still liv...

2009-11-18T11:47:18.392-06:00

I am in a REAL pickle trying to recover data on di...

2009-06-14T20:21:59.423-05:00

I am in a REAL pickle trying to recover data on disk volume that will no longer mount and desperate to find someone/some place/ some way to pull off files from a lost or broken volume (volume 1).

Things went bad after I went to add a drive to the unit (concatenated) and I got a system alert (on the MediaVault Admin screen ) about insufficient memory blocks (???) to complete the task - afterwich the original 300GB Volume 1 on System Drive would not longer mount. Yikes. Cant find it at all... and I have 300GB of family pictures on this drive (ahhh).

Can anyone suggest anything here? I really am not a computer scientist and know little about linux.

HELP I am in a REAL pickle trying to recover data...

2009-06-14T20:19:17.293-05:00

HELP

I am in a REAL pickle trying to recover data on disk volume that will no longer mount and desperate to find someone/some place/ some way to pull off files from a lost or broken volume (volume 1). This is the original 300GB drive and volume. Things went bad after I went to add a new drive to Volume 1 (concatenated) and I got a some system error about insufficient memory blocks (???) to complete the task. I then removed the new drive from Volume 1 however after a restart of the NAS drive is there but Volume 1 is gone.

I can't seem to find any way to mount the original Volume 1 (ahh)

Looking for anyone who might be able to help me. I really have not training on Linux...

Randy Mizzoni
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hi, great information here. I've run into a l...

2009-06-12T20:40:59.209-05:00

Hi, great information here.

I've run into a little snag trying to mount my MV drive within KNOPPIX. I was able to find the hex location of the ReIsEr, but when I try to mount the drive I get the following message :

mount: cannot mount block device /dev/loop0 read-only

My unix skills are pretty poor, so I am confused which drive it thinks is read-only. Am I somehow trying to mount that drive to my CD or DVD drive?

Please help.

Also David, you might want to check this website to replace the drives : http://www.k0lee.com/hpmediavault/mv2upgrade.htm

I went thru the steps for the 1st generation MV and it worked great. This is for the one for yours I believe.

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2009-06-11T10:03:16.054-05:00

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I don't know if anyone is still reading this, ...

2009-06-11T10:02:37.677-05:00

I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but I have a question about upgrading my 2120... It has 500gb single drive. I do not care to save anything. I want to replace single 500gb with two 1tb drives. If I do this, how do I install the OS onto the new 1tb drive? Thanks!