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Can a NAS hard drive be read by removing it and plugging it into a computer? The pop-up tells you not to click the initializer, I've tried all three paths
My colleague's old NAS wouldn't turn on, so I removed two drives and plugged them into Windows, but a pop-up asked for initialization—that almost cost me all 20,000 photos. 90% of NAS drives are in ext4 format. Computers naturally don't recognize them, but they really read: DiskGenius, Linux direct mounting, RAID single drive assembly—three routes lined up with commands and pitfalls for you....

