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Can I move my hard drive from a RN102 to a RN312 and keep all the contents?
I'm not sure if the title is quite clear on what I mean, but I didn't want to get too wordy. I've got a RN102 with a 4TB drive in that is fairly full (about 75%). I've just bought a RN312 as an u...
Hi SisyphusBond,
I suggest you leave it until the LED becomes stable. I couldn't tell how long but the migration should be flawless between these models.
Let me know if you have further question.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Well it's been going for 8 hours, so far...
I had another thought. Could it be because I'm not trying to migrate it to a pure "diskless" system? The manual only takes about migrating to a diskless NAS.
I had installed one temporary hard drive to upgrade the firmware, and then just swapped the disks. Could it perhaps be that the 312 is still expecting the temporary drive to be there somehow?
Can I somehow downgrade it back to "diskless"? I can't seem to use the "destroy" volume option in the settings with a single drive in there. Factory reset I would also assume to reboot and start formatting the temporary drive already in there?
Reading here:
I noticed a bit about OS Reinstall from the boot menu. Would that work, perhaps?
SisyphusBond wrote:
I had another thought. Could it be because I'm not trying to migrate it to a pure "diskless" system? The manual only takes about migrating to a diskless NAS.
I had installed one temporary hard drive to upgrade the firmware, and then just swapped the disks. Could it perhaps be that the 312 is still expecting the temporary drive to be there somehow?
Did you power down, remove the temporary, add the original disks, and then power up?
StephenB wrote:
SisyphusBond wrote:I had another thought. Could it be because I'm not trying to migrate it to a pure "diskless" system? The manual only takes about migrating to a diskless NAS.
I had installed one temporary hard drive to upgrade the firmware, and then just swapped the disks. Could it perhaps be that the 312 is still expecting the temporary drive to be there somehow?
Did you power down, remove the temporary, add the original disks, and then power up?
That's exactly what I did, yes.
I tried to reinstall the OS after adding the original disk. That seems to have had some success, as the 312 now boots and I can see the files through ReadyCloud. I can't for the life of me seem to get through to it with anything on my LAN, thought.
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