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nsne
Oct 05, 2014Virtuoso
ReadyNAS 314 stuck on "Booting...[]"
I powered up my brand new ReadyNAS 314 with three functional 4TB WD Red HDDs (for a total of 12TB) about two hours ago. Did some work, watched some TV, and the screen still reads "Booting...[]". The f...
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 05, 2014NETGEAR Employee Retired
If the disks have partitions on them then it won't wipe them by default. Shouldn't need to remove the disks to access the boot menu (unless there is e.g. a bad disk, perhaps) and disks need to be installed to be able to do a factory default. A factory default without disks won't achieve anything.
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