A couple years ago I created a raid 1 array using two 1TB drives in a computer running Ubuntu 12.04. These drives stored my files (pictures, videos and music) and acted as a server for other computers in the house. The operating system was on a different, smaller, disk. When I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 I was worried about the potential of overwriting some of these files and unplugged the two hard drives in the RAID array to be sure nothing happened to the files. I never got around to replacing them and recently got a new computer. In my naivete I thought I could just plug these two drives into a NAS and retain all the files on them. I put one drive in the NAS and it appears to have been reformated. I tried connecting the other drive back to the original computer, now running Ubuntu 14.04, but it would not mount. Any ideas for how I can rescue my pictures, videos and music? Thanks!
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If your main goal is to recover the files, I would first try the accepted solution at stackexchange. It is read-only so it sounds safe enough. Replace /dev/sdb1 with the name of the partition on your drive. Use parted -l to figure out the latter.
answered Aug 24, 2015 at 7:03