I have got to acquire a Buffalo Hard drive. Now I can't have more details. I think it has only two disk. I think to do first the acquisition in E01. But don't know what to do as second step. I prefer free software or cheap…
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The TeraStations I have encountered use SGI XFS. I have been most successful recovering data with UFS Explorer.
Pretty sure X-ways reads XFS filesystems and is pretty good when it come to reading unusual file systems.
Thanks I haven't got xways
If your only option is free software then using a Linux machine it is difficult but not impossible to expose the separate '.E01' images as a single RAID and then mount the combined image.
The steps I would take are
1) Use 'ewfmount' to expose each disk image as a file.
2) Use 'losetup' to expose the disk image files as block devices.
3) Use 'mdadm' to reconfigure the block devices as the requisite RAID device
4) Use 'mount -t xfs' to mount the RAID device
All this indirection will no doubt result in grindingly slow access but at least you should be able to read the file structure and recover live files. If you want to carve files then stop at step 3 and use the carving tool of choice.
I use this kind of access all the time on images of single drives (no RAID set-up) but I see no reason why it shouldn't work.
If you aren't familiar with the tools mentioned then you have a lot of reading to do and painful testing to conduct…
Actually, somewhere in the dusty corridors of my memory, I recall examining a buffalo NAS with two drives that were configured as RAID 1 (mirror) so I only needed to mount the XFS partition on one of the drives (having confirmed that the mirror partition was a bit-for-bit copy)
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I can also evaluate to buy cheap software around 100$
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