Trevor...

I am trying to recover an unbootable LaCie 2Big with a corrupted partition map, these devices have a major design flaw in that the operating system resides on the hard drives and not in firmware, so if the hard drives become unbootable you have a doorstop.

Since I would rather set myself on fire than deal with LaCie support again so I would like to find a 500GB drive I can image to rebuild bootable drives.

Alternatively... if somebody would like to make me a "DD" image of a LaCie 2Big drive that would be marvelous too.

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screature

Although I can't help you I sure hear you about dealing with LaCie support they are the worst.

Trevor...

Yeah, this is the second 2Big to bomb on us.

The last time it was a hardware problem with the box itself and they refused to replace the box without us sending in the REMOVABLE drives with them.

So why did we buy a NAS with REMOVABLE drives if as far as LaCie is concerned they are forever married. I stuck those drives in my FreeBSD server and am using that 2Big as a door stop. (unfortunately I wiped out those drives a few months ago when I made a new RAID set) I could not seem to impress upon their illustrious support people that the drives were REMOVABLE and there was absolutely no reason to send them.

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Dr T

I don't understand 90% of your post, but I think I have some spare equipment that might be of use to you.

I have a spare LaCie 2Big Quadra box with one functioning 500G drive in it. I have it stashed in an office that I don't use over the summer months, about 3 hours from here one way, but I might make a trip there soon to pick up some books. Lemme know if I should get the LaCie for you or not. I was actually planning on abandoning it, as it has only the one drive, and I like to make a double backup. (The other drive stopped working a couple years back about a day or so after the warranty expired.)

I have on hand 2 2Big Quadra Firewire 800 (etc) and one 2Big Thunderbolt, but they are all in use.

Trevor...

Thanks for the offer, I am not sure if the Quadro and Network 2Big's use the same software or not, if they use the same drives it might still have the 2Big NAS software pre-loaded.

I would have to look into that, do you know how much you would want for it?

Thanks,

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Dr T

So maybe you cannot use these spare bits? It is unclear to me. But if you can, you should email me in private and we can negotiate a price. For my part it will be a reasonable price. Pls let me know what part of the country you are in, as I live in the backwoods of BC and don't get out much more than once a week to places with a Post Office.