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My ReadyNAS died. How do I save my data???
My ReadyNAS Ultra 2 has died and now shows both hard drives as dead. It still boots up but but intermittently shows 1 hard drive working so I'm sure that it is a hardware issue and not that both working drives died at the same time. I have RAID setup and need to recover my data.
Can I just transfer the drives to a new ReadyNAS or will they need to be reformatted?
Will these drives only work in a ReadyNAS device or would a different NAS platform support them without reformatting?
Help.
Can I just transfer the drives to a new ReadyNAS or will they need to be reformatted?
Will these drives only work in a ReadyNAS device or would a different NAS platform support them without reformatting?
Help.
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- This is an ultra-2, so there is no LCD screen. Full instructions are on page 13 here: http://www.readynas.com/download/docume ... pril11.pdf
The alternative is to plug the drive into a PC and unformat it. You do that by right clicking on computer, and selecting manage. Scroll down to the hard drive, right-click on the volume[s] and choose delete. - ops, sorry!
- Two disks means raid1 (both disks have a complete copy of the data). I suggested this to someone once before and it worked: http://www.ufsexplorer.com/rdr_ext23.php. You just use it with one disk. Runs on windows though.
steve
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