dead unit, want to recover data

[IpityTHEfool]

Hi,

My wl700Ge has died (no power anymore) Now there's still a lot of data on the internal drive that I want to save. I've tried the drive in a USB housing and connecting it to my pc. It does detect the harddrive size but can't read the contents.

I've looked on this site and have seen that the drive uses ReiserFS. I have tried downloading some tools that make it possible to read RFS in Windows, but they also don't allow me to see the contents of the drive.

This is the same if I don't use the USB housing, but connect it internally as a secondary slave drive.

Does anyone have an idea how to save my data?

Thanks in advance.

IpityTHEfool

[ABATAPA]

Does anyone have an idea how to save my data?


Use any Linux LiveCD to mount ReiserFS partition, or to recover partition table (with gpart or testdisk).
Or you can send me defective device in Russia, and I restored all the data, which can only be restored. :)

[mumsoft]

Hi,

Does anyone have an idea how to save my data?



IpityTHEfool

What you are looking for is probably this:

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=10198

Regards,
Marc

[IpityTHEfool]

Indeed it is, however I can't mount the drive, it says invalid argument when mounting it to my newly created /mnt/asus directory.

Now, I've hardly ever used linux before, so I don't know if there's something I missed, or that it just doesn't contain any data anymore :S

[mumsoft]

Indeed it is, however I can't mount the drive, it says invalid argument when mounting it to my newly created /mnt/asus directory.

Now, I've hardly ever used linux before, so I don't know if there's something I missed, or that it just doesn't contain any data anymore :S

I think we need more information. What kind of Linux are you using here? What exactly is the error message? Is your partition sda1 or sdb1 of what?
Did you try this:
mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/asus
with sda1=your partition name?

Regards,
Marc