Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive (MHNDHD) file recovery after "Factory Self Erase"

Spanish keywords: recuperar archivos de un Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive (MHNDHD) después de qué automáticamente retornó a su estado de fábrica

Tools:

• Standard Screwdriver

Hardware:

• Desktop PC with Windows 7 installed 
• an adittional free SATA connector
• Enough free space on drive C:

Software:

• Raise Data Recovery for SGI/XFS at http://www.ufsexplorer.com/rdr_xfs.php
• You need to buy the online serial via paypal to recover files greater tan 256KB

Objectives:

• Try to find a Iomega XFS Data Partition
• Try to restore overwrited XFS Data Partition by accidental factory reset
• Try to restore overwrited files on XFS Data Partition by "SELF factory reset"

Steps:

1. Warranty that you have 1 hard drives with enough space
2. Install Windows on drive in SATA 0 port
3. Shutdown computer

To dissasemble the drive

• Unplug LAN and Power Cord and Carefully Disasembly Iomega Hard Drive, take out the two screws on the back, BE EXTREMLY CAREFUL the disk could slide out and crash, take out the "fan connector" just the white connector, if you pull from cable you'll broke the fan plug.  Later take out the four screws from the side of the internal sata disk
• A dissasembly video from Geek Street is on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLAGPBaixbw)

1. Install the internal SATA on your Desktop computer on port SATA 1 (don't use SATA-to-USB adapters these are extremely slow if you need to recover a bunch of files)
2. Click NO if Windows Ask to format a "x: drive" letter
3. Just don't try to browse the partitions from Windows.  Run compmgmt.msc to open "Disk Management" to see if the drive appears, again Click NO if Windows ask to initialize disk or "Reactivate Disk", just check that you see your C:\ drive and a second disk with three partitions (two small and one large)
4. Install and actívate the Raise Data Recovery for XFS
5. Open the program and right clic on "the biggest XFS partition" that you found on the secondary disk, and clic "Recover", don't forget to check "Intelligent RAW" checkbox
6. Once you see the file tree on Raise Data Recovery Program, restore on drive C:\ or a network share.  The recovery chances is 100% but the recovery of filenames is only about 80%, so you will need to rename several or hundred of files.  (install msoffice, adobe , etc) you'll have a lot of time to spent putting the right name on files.
7. To get the initial FileTree will take about 8 hours on a 50% used 1TB hard drive.
8. Later you could have a 24 hour wait for total recovery of the files.

Good Luck

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