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tasone
Aspirant
Aug 13, 2021

Does not Boot

Hello,   I have two Netgear ReadyNAS 2100, and I tried to do a firmware update to the device, but after it was done and rebooted, nothing happened   I unpluged and waited a bit and tried again to...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 13, 2021
tasone wrote:

 

I just leave the device and it looks like nothing is happening to it at all, I cant see it on my network, and i used the netgear to set it up and it cannot find it.

Try powering down and removing the disks (labeling by slot, so you know where they belong).

 

Then power up, and see if the NAS shows up on your network.  RAIDar should also find it, and report a "no disks" status. https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar

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Sandshark
Sensei
Aug 13, 2021

What did you try to update to?  I hoipe it wasn't OS6.  The 2100 (V1) can't be updated to OS6.  If you did try going to OS6, you may well have bricked the NAS.  But you could try a USB recovery to the proper OS.

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      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User
      Aug 14, 2021

      Try the USB recovery, it might get you back.

       

      OS-6 requires a 64 bit x86 processor, and unfortunately several legacy 4.2.x NAS only had 32 bit processors.  They can't be converted.

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        tasone
        Aspirant
        Aug 18, 2021

        I already tried a USB reinstall, still nothing

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