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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
We don't wipe them by default because we want to avoid where possible wiping data against user's wishes.
Though in most cases the boot menu should still be accessible with disks installed. Have to press and hold the reset button then turn the NAS on whilst continuing to press the reset button.
Of course when that doesn't work getting to the boot menu stage and then inserting disks can be a good way to go.
If all the disks were not formatted and had no partitions on them then the NAS would have done a factory default automatically on first boot.
Though in most cases the boot menu should still be accessible with disks installed. Have to press and hold the reset button then turn the NAS on whilst continuing to press the reset button.
Of course when that doesn't work getting to the boot menu stage and then inserting disks can be a good way to go.
If all the disks were not formatted and had no partitions on them then the NAS would have done a factory default automatically on first boot.
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