Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

[kpeddie]

Have a Buffalo Linkstation Live LS-CH1.0TL Drive that i need to recover. Was dropped and now the Linkstation wont start up properly. Drive spins up, clicks and spins down and Linkstation throws up an error. Removed drive and it tests fine outside of casing. Can view HEX fine and found a few partitions. Data appears to be on a large XFS partition but I think data is encrypted by the looks of it. Anyone any idea what I can use to unencrypt it if it is?

Thanks

[Alexii]

Heya. This makes no sense ... Clicks in the enclosure works fine outside... Try the following ( ur own risk )
1. Image the drive by sector to a known good drive.
2. If the image is good - stick it in the enclosure
3. ...........
4. Profit ( or not )

[kpeddie]

Ye, im not sure whats going on either. That is indeed what I decided to try.

Thanks

[DR-Kiev]

Data appears to be on a large XFS partition but I think data is encrypted by the looks of it. Anyone any idea what I can use to unencrypt it if it is?

Thanks

Incorrect assumption.

[pcimage]

1. Clone the drive
2. Try and read the clone with UFS Explorer, see what occurs!

[kpeddie]

As it turns out, data is not encrypted. UFS Explorer was the first thing i tried along with R Studio but neither saw any data straight off though they saw the partitions fine. Running a recovery however showed data.

[pcimage]

As it turns out, data is not encrypted. UFS Explorer was the first thing i tried along with R Studio but neither saw any data straight off though they saw the partitions fine. Running a recovery however showed data.

Great!

[loki]

As it turns out, data is not encrypted. UFS Explorer was the first thing i tried along with R Studio but neither saw any data straight off though they saw the partitions fine. Running a recovery however showed data.

Congratz