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Post by Rob on May 5, 2021 8:11:14 GMT
If there are multiple disks then chances are you formatted in as some sort of RAID filesystem and the data is spread over all of the disks. Probably formatted with a RAID type with resilience which can survive a disk failure. How many disks are in there?
My Netgear NAS has only two drives so is using mirroring. But if you have three or more then it's probably using RAID 5 or a properitory RAID format. What model of Buffalo NAS was it?
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Post by Humph on May 5, 2021 8:13:14 GMT
I was going to say that.
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Post by WDB on May 5, 2021 9:26:38 GMT
No, it’s a two-disk RAID 1 array, so each disk is an exact copy of the other.
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Post by Rob on May 5, 2021 19:12:42 GMT
Some Buffalo NAS devices used Linux as the operating system and XFS as the filesystem. You could try one of the drives via a USB adapter on a system that can mount XFS, e.g. a Linux distribution. Worth a try.
If you went down the run a Linux bistro as a virtual machine on say Oracle Virtualbox (free), VMWare or Parallels, then providing you have the necessary to connect the 3.5" drive to USB then it can be connected to the VM.
It's probably possible to mount the drive on a Mac with the right 'driver' (kext) or even Windows.
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Post by WDB on Sept 21, 2024 20:08:15 GMT
Time for a revisit on a wet Saturday. My self-satisfaction at achieving the disk upgrade faded somewhat when I realised I’d followed an outdated set of instructions and formatted my new drive without Apple’s current file system, APFS. Not a big deal — the main annoyance being that it would not auto-sync OneDrive files between the online repository and my local copy — but it did get gradually bigger as more apps refused to update, and MacOS itself was stuck at Mojave / 10.6.14. That meant my Microsoft 365 apps wouldn’t update either, and when Excel refused to open at all, it was time to get brave all over again.
After a lot of precautionary backing up, I worked out that I could use the bootable Thunderbolt drive I created last time in the Transcend caddy to boot the machine and redefine the internal disk to APFS. Pressing the button marked Delete was A Moment, the popup announcing Restore Failed was another. But I realised my mistake, corrected it, then was pleasantly surprised when the old drive offered to restore all my apps and settings to the new one. That took a couple of hours but seems to have gone through well enough, only a few details like background pictures left to update manually. It immediately accepted a Mojave security update, which unblocked several app updates. And it’s now happily downloading Monterey / 12.7.6, which will satisfy the Microsoft suite.
Monterey is apparently the end of the line for my 2015-model Retina machine but that’s OK with me. If it lasts me into 2026, I’ll have had nine years’ use out of it, for about £1,300 including the SSD upgrade. It still looks and feels nice, and doesn’t seem slow next to the much more recent Dell I use at work. Worth a bit of effort to keep it going.
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Post by Rob on Sept 21, 2024 21:49:35 GMT
Presumably your version of Office was a 32-bit one that only worked up to and including Mojava 10.14?
There are ways using OpenCore to install later versions on unsupported hardware. There will be a limit because at some point no Intel based Macs will get upgrades even if only say 4 years old.
Note later Macs even before the ARM based ones used soldered RAM, etc. The ARM based Macs though go further of course and the RAM is on the CPU module. But also more recent machines the flash storage is just flash storage that does not come with a controller etc. That's all on the CPU module. Swap an 'SSD' to another machine and it won't have 'data' because what's on there is only known to the origin machine.
I'm thinking of moving back to Windows or maybe Linux. I used Linux and OS/2 Warp in 1994/1995.
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Post by bpg on Sept 24, 2024 22:13:42 GMT
I only use Windows on my work laptop, switched to Linux Mint in 2018, never looked back.
Open Office has some subtle difference to Office365, it does what I need it to do. Big difference is how much RAM the OS needs. Mint uses about ¼ what Windows 11 grabs on boot.
There's lots of online help available if you do get stuck. Usually a syntax thing as they've really let the dyslexic programmers loose if you're coming from something like Windows or the extremely verbose VMS.
If you want dual boot Windows and Linux recommend you install Windows first. It gets a bit out of sorts if it's not the primary partition. Linux doesn't care, it'll sit anywhere.
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Post by Rob on Sept 24, 2024 23:42:00 GMT
I first installed Linux on my first PC in 1993. Programming the video driver for the refresh rate and vertical/horizontal sync needed care. It was not plug and play. Get it wrong and it would physically break a monitor. What fun. I switched to MacOS (i.e. OSX back then) in 2009 but I still have a few 32-bit apps so holding off going to the latest version because 32-bit is not possible for apps then. But it should be and it's just Apple being Apple. Current Windows 10 PC which I don't use much was once dual boot with Hackintosh so to speak. Then more recently tried OpenCore to decide what I might replace/upgrade it with. As I say I first installed Linux (from floppy disk.... no CD drives then) over 30 years ago.  And all with 8MB RAM. |
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Post by Rob on Sept 24, 2024 23:44:24 GMT
EFI partitions is not something I'm totally up to speed with. But the 'boot' partition on my Windows machine will boot Windows fine. The other drive has OpenCore boot loader at the moment and that will boot into Windows or MacOS - but the latter is not reliable. Both are using EFI partitions.
So I might have MacOS in a VM.
Also played a bit with Proxmox. And could do GPU passthrough there.... options.
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And all with 8MB RAM.