 Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to recover data from a Bufolin S model WS6V12TLR5 in today's video. I'll show you how to breathe new life into an old NAS if it's operating system 1 boot, and the installation disk with the system image is lost. You'll also learn how to set up a network connection to four-window server and how to recover data if the NAS storage doesn't work. So I have an old Bufolin S model WS6VL for six hard disks. The USB drive containing its operating system was lost a long time ago, so I decided to install Windows Storage Server 2012 instead. By default, this device came with WSS system dating back to 2008. Since the disk with the operating system is missing and I'm reluctant to fiddle about with searching the driver, I thought I could give my NAS a newer system. The operating system for all the devices can be found on this website – archive.org. It offers disk images for early versions of that Windows operating system. Also, such device can work under other operating systems like Expinology, OpenMediaWald or Troness. After the image is downloaded, create a bootable driver with Windows Storage Server 2012. I don't think I should focus on the installation process itself, since it's very similar to installing any other Windows operating system. The only thing which is important for this specific model is that the bootable drive should be plugged in a USB version 2 port. A keyboard should be plugged into the other port, respectively. Also, this NAS storage has a VGA video port, which allows you to install an operating system different from the default one. Alright, everything is connected and ready for installation of the operating system. To select a boot device, when starting the NAS, press the F12 key. Then choose the USB drive to boot from and start the installation. After the operating system is ready, I build a RAID 5 with three hard disks using the utility called Windows Storage Pool. It's quite easy – create a storage pool made up of three disks, and then use that pool to create a virtual disk with RAID 5. As a result, I got a virtual disk of disk size. After that, I shared it on the network to arrange remote network access to the storage. I can work with it by connecting it as a network drive to another PC. One way to configure access to the server is by establishing an ISCSI connection. To install the ISCSI role on the server, open Server Manager, go to File & Storage Services, and choose ISCSI. If this service isn't installed yet, click on the Manage button, add roles and features, roles, File & Storage Services, File & ISCSI Services. Here check the boxes for File Server and ISCSI target server. Then click Next and Install. It's not necessary to install the computer after the installation, so you can move on to configure the target server. To do it, go back to the Server Manager window and open File & Storage Services – ISCSI. To create a new virtual disk, click on this link and or open Tasks – New ISCSI Virtual Disk. In the new window that opens, select the disk. In my case, it is the previously created rate, and click Next. At the next tab, give a name to the virtual disk, next, give it size and type, next. New ISCSI target – Next. Give a name for this target. At the next tab, you can add initiators. Select the servers that can get access to the disk. In this new page, you can set up authentication between servers by CHAP protocol. CHAP, which stands for Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol, is an identity check-in protocol that periodically re-authenticates the user during an online session using a shared password. For ISCSI, you can use either direct and reverse CHAP authentication and click Next. Make sure that the settings are correct and start disk creation by clicking Create and then close when the process is over. After that, go to the computer where you need to connect the virtual disk, start ISCSI initiator and get connected. Type the IP address in this field and click Quick Connect. Choose the server and click Finish. The last step is to open Disk Management and partition the virtual disk. In the operating system, it will be displayed as a physical disk. Later, this disk will appear in the File Explorer. Since this device is quite old and the operational life for such products is about five years, it's worth considering the options to avoid loss of important data in the future. If this device breaks down, the rate will be destroyed and all information will become inaccessible. To retrieve the data from hard disks, you need a specialized data recovery tool. Hatman Rate Recovery will help you rebuild the destroyed rate and get the important information back. Bufolin S products ensure reliable and centralized storage of your data for both personal and business needs. In spite of modern hardware and top-class backup and restore utilities used in Bufolin S products, they can also break down just as any other storage system. Even with their enhanced reliability, they are still vulnerable to errors and data loss. Bufolin S drivers often show error curves on their LED panels to notify users of possible issues. A series of blinking indicators tells you that data recovery may be required. For example, an E15 message means that one or several hard disks are out of order. For best recovery chances, turn off the machine immediately and replace the faulty disk. If your NAS is down, or one or several disks in the array are no longer functional and as a result of that you have lost access to some data which still remains on these disks, then a specialized data recovery tool designed to work with rates will help you bring your files back. This program supports all popular rate types and most file systems. You can use it to recover data from Bufolin S systems as well as from devices by other manufacturers including Synology, QNAP, Promise, Asus Store, etc. It can also help you to rebuild a damaged rate if the NAS or its controller is broken and do it even with one or several disks within the array are out of order. You'll be able to restore critical information which is still on the disks and achieve it even without you actually using the NAS. So take the disks out of the NAS device and connect them to the motherboard of a Windows computer. Don't forget to label the disks with numbers according to how they were positioned in the storage system. If your motherboard lacks setup boards to connect all the disks or you have a similar problem with power connectors, you can solve the problem by using special expansion cords and adapters and you can see a few examples on the screen. When the disks are connected, run the Data Recovery tool. It will automatically rebuild the damaged rate system with available disks and display it in the program's window. As you can see, the program managed to identify all rate settings correctly. To recover data, right-click on the disk and choose Open. After that, choose the file search type – Fast Scan or Full Analysis. For starters, recommend a Fast Scan. The utility will promptly analyze the disks and display all the files it can find. If this scan type can't find the required files, then go for Full Analysis. To do that, go back to the program's main window, right-click on the disk and choose Analyze again – Full Analysis, specify the file system for this disk and click Next. In most complicated cases, recommend searching for files by their signatures and you can do it by checking the box next to Content Aware Analysis. Now the program has built the destroyed rate automatically and found all the files which were stored on this disk array, including the deleted ones, these are marked with a red cross. You can check the contents with the the preview option. Find the ones you need to restore, select them and click the Recovery button. Choose the folder where you'd like to save the files and click Recovery again. When the process is over, you will find the recovered files in the folder you have chosen. To quickly find a specific file, there is a search by name feature. Also, this utility lets you save a copy of the entire disk and then work on it instead of addressing the actual disk all the time. Such feature allows you to protect that disk data from being overwritten, from an accidental disk failure or from other mistakes that users could make. In case of an ISCSI disk and a properly working NAS storage, you will be able to scan the disk right from the client system. Just start the program and scan the network drive. Scan the files which were accidentally deleted and recover them. This method can help you if some files were removed from the storage by accident. In this case, you don't need to take the disks out of the storage case. Set up an ISCSI connection and try scanning the drive from where the files were removed. We have explored how to configure such connection a bit earlier in this video. In very complicated cases, when critical service data was erased from the disks, the program may fail to rebuild the rate automatically. Luckily for such cases, this program has a feature to manually rebuild the rate in a special constructor mode. To use this mode, you need to know all the information about the damaged array. Open Rate constructor, select Manual mode, click Next, and fill in the array data. Array type, block order, block size, add the disks included into the array, and specify their order. As a result, it should appear in this window. If you got all the properties right, you will see that directory, if you see none, it means the properties are incorrect, or this information is insufficient to identify the rate. You may have to specify the offset, which tells you where the beginning of the disk is located. You can find this information with the help of Hacks editor. When all the properties are ready, click Add. After that, the array will appear in the Drive Manager. Now the last step is to scan it using Fast Scan or Full Analysis, and recover the files you need to restore. And that is all for now. Hopefully this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching. Good luck.