Welcome to Cardiff Data Recovery, Wales’s trusted authority in Netgear data recovery. With 25 years of experience, we specialise in recovering lost, deleted, or inaccessible data from all models of Netgear NAS RAID systems, including desktop and rack-mounted devices used in business and personal environments.
Whether your Netgear ReadyNAS has failed due to drive issues, volume corruption, or controller failure, our expert RAID engineers can safely recover your data with industry-leading tools and techniques.
📦 Supported Netgear NAS RAID Models
We recover data from all Netgear NAS systems, including the most popular desktop and rack units in the UK.
Top 20 Selling Netgear NAS RAID Models:
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN214
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN524X
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN422
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN314
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN212
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN626X
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN202
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN424
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN104
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN428
- Netgear ReadyNAS RN516
- Netgear ReadyNAS 2120 v2
- Netgear ReadyNAS 3138
- Netgear ReadyNAS 3312
- Netgear ReadyNAS 4312X
- Netgear ReadyNAS 4360X
- Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 6
- Netgear ReadyNAS Duo v2
- Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition
- Netgear ReadyNAS NVX
We recover from all RAID levels supported by Netgear (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and X-RAID2), across various drive interfaces and operating systems.
🛠️ Common Netgear NAS RAID Drive Failures We Recover
We handle a wide range of failure types. Below are 30 of the most common Netgear NAS RAID recovery scenarios:
- RAID volume not mounting in ReadyNAS OS
- Volume marked as degraded or inactive
- Disk failure during RAID rebuild
- Multiple drive failures
- File system corruption (EXT4, BTRFS)
- X-RAID2 failure due to sync issues
- Controller or firmware corruption
- Power surge resulting in boot failure
- Volume showing as unallocated or RAW
- Drive ejected or marked as foreign
- Volume expansion failure
- Bit rot or checksum mismatches
- Failed DSM update or firmware upgrade
- Disk initialised or formatted accidentally
- Failed migration to new RAID level
- RAID metadata corruption
- Background scrub damaged parity
- Encrypted volume not accessible
- OS partition failure on system disk
- Rebuild interrupted by power loss
- Incorrect disk order reassembly
- Missing or corrupt GPT partition table
- System stuck in boot loop
- Network unreachable, volume inaccessible
- Disk not recognised in Web UI
- Slow or unresponsive RAID volume
- Data loss after factory reset
- Volume degraded with no rebuild prompt
- Backup failure during disk failure
- Failed disk replaced with incompatible drive
🔍 Our Netgear NAS RAID Recovery Process
1. Disk Imaging & Diagnostics
- All drives are removed and imaged using forensic-grade, write-blocked tools.
- Damaged drives are stabilised using multi-pass imaging to recover as much raw data as possible.
2. RAID Configuration Analysis
- We reconstruct the RAID manually if metadata is corrupt or missing.
- Stripe size, order, parity rotation, and file system structure are determined using advanced RAID emulation software.
3. Volume & File System Repair
- For EXT4 and BTRFS systems, we manually rebuild volume headers, superblocks, and damaged inode structures.
- Crashed or inactive volumes are virtually mounted and extracted in a secure lab environment.
4. Data Recovery & Integrity Testing
- Files are recovered from the reconstructed array, verified, and organised in their original folder hierarchy.
- Where necessary, raw recovery is used to extract data fragments from corrupted file systems.
5. Secure Data Return
- Recovered data is transferred to a new storage medium and returned with a full recovery report.
- Our team ensures all client data is handled confidentially and in compliance with UK GDPR standards.
🖥️ Supported Interfaces & File Systems
We recover from drives using:
- SATA, PATA (IDE), NVMe, SAS, SCSI, M.2, U.2, PCIe, eSATA
Supported file systems include:
- EXT3 / EXT4, BTRFS, NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, HFS+, macOS APFS
Supported operating systems:
- Windows, Linux, macOS, UNIX, and proprietary NAS firmware environments
✅ Why Choose Cardiff Data Recovery?
- 25 years of experience with Netgear ReadyNAS systems
- Expertise in both physical and logical data recovery
- Support for encrypted volumes and virtualised environments
- Rapid response and optional 48-hour critical recovery service
- Confidential, GDPR-compliant data handling
- Free diagnostic evaluation with no obligation
We are trusted by law firms, educational institutions, government departments, and small to medium businesses across Wales and the UK.
📞 Contact Cardiff Data Recovery Today
Has your Netgear NAS volume failed, become degraded, or gone offline? Don’t risk permanent data loss with DIY rebuilds or third-party utilities.
Contact Cardiff Data Recovery now for a free diagnostic. We are your reliable partner for professional netgear data recovery, no matter the failure type or complexity.







