Re-Adding Drive Without It Being Erased
Posted: 03 Mar 2022, 22:55
Hi,
I've recently been hit by the ransomware attack that's been going around lately. I've restored and updated the OS, and have been trying to add some storage hard drives that were previously inside the NAS.
They contain an absolutely huge number of files, which I'm sure mostly wasn't encrypted, if at all. Although everything was backed up to external drives, it's going to take a lot of time for everything to transfer back. There's also a substantial amount of metadata on there, which hasn't been backed up recently, and will probably take weeks to re-edit.
Is it possible to add the drives back without them being formatted?
Thanks.
I've recently been hit by the ransomware attack that's been going around lately. I've restored and updated the OS, and have been trying to add some storage hard drives that were previously inside the NAS.
They contain an absolutely huge number of files, which I'm sure mostly wasn't encrypted, if at all. Although everything was backed up to external drives, it's going to take a lot of time for everything to transfer back. There's also a substantial amount of metadata on there, which hasn't been backed up recently, and will probably take weeks to re-edit.
Is it possible to add the drives back without them being formatted?
Thanks.