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disk fail with new firmware
I now have a bricked Duo after it did a firmware upgrade on its own. N The net result is that I now have five perfectly good hard drives, all out of warranty, not ones in 'the list' because i bough...
You have 5 bad disks but a duo? Hmmmm. When you hook the drives up to your PC are they seen by the BIOS when you boot (you do have to turn of the splash screen to see the rolling text). If so they should be then seen by Windows Drive Management. Note - the disks in a Duo (and any ReadyNAS and every other brand that I know of) are formatted with various Linux distros and will not be see by Windows my computer or Windows Explorer, but will be seen by the computer BIOS and the Drive Management. Drive Management will show various partitions on the drive.
You could also run the vendor tools on the drives (SeaTools for Seagate and Data Lifeguard for WD). If the drive is seen by the BIOS, then the vendor software will still see the drive when Windows will not. Windows will only show drives that are FAT or NTFS formatted.
You could also run the vendor tools on the drives (SeaTools for Seagate and Data Lifeguard for WD). If the drive is seen by the BIOS, then the vendor software will still see the drive when Windows will not. Windows will only show drives that are FAT or NTFS formatted.
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