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kpeddie

Post subject: Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

Posted: July 4th, 2012, 13:43

Joined: February 28th, 2011, 21:04
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Location: United Kingdom

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?

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Alexii

Post subject: Re: Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

Posted: July 4th, 2012, 14:53

Joined: October 28th, 2009, 14:35
Posts: 775
Location: Toronto

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 )

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kpeddie

Post subject: Re: Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

Posted: July 4th, 2012, 15:04

Joined: February 28th, 2011, 21:04
Posts: 209
Location: United Kingdom

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

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DR-Kiev

Post subject: Re: Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

Posted: July 4th, 2012, 15:33

Joined: March 7th, 2009, 12:43
Posts: 1091
Location: Angel Data Recovery

kpeddie wrote:

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?

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Incorrect assumption.

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

Posted: July 4th, 2012, 15:34

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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Location: UK

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

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kpeddie

Post subject: Re: Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

Posted: July 4th, 2012, 18:25

Joined: February 28th, 2011, 21:04
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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.

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

Posted: July 6th, 2012, 3:54

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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kpeddie wrote:

Great!

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loki

Post subject: Re: Buffalo Linkstation Live advice

Posted: July 6th, 2012, 5:43

Joined: July 7th, 2010, 4:45
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kpeddie wrote:

Congratz

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