Re: Western Digital My Book World Edition II NAS device - crashed?

["Bob Cagle" <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Bob Cagle wrote:
> > Unfortunately the default drive format is a Linux flavor, according
to
> > the manual.  It never specifies what flavor.  I'm not a Linux guy, so
I
> > don't have a clue where to go from here.  

David Gibbs wrote:
> I'm going to guess that it's using the ext2 or ext3 file system.
Assuming this is true, it would probably be worth getting a copy of
Spinrite from GRC.COM to see if it >can recover the failed sectors.
Spinrite is aware of ext type file systems.

I have used Spinwrite before to recover data from a failed drive in XP,
so I already have the license.  But, how well will it work with spanned
drives?  I can easily put both drives into my Vista desktop box, and
then run Spinrite over them.  Or does it have to be a Linux box?