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NAS DUO reports new HD dead, but it passes diagnostics
I have a ReadyNAS Duo with two 2TB drives. Recently the green light for one drive went out and the NAS reported the drive as "dead". I removed the drive and ran seatools, it passed the smart and quick...
That is not possible. When you formatted the drive as NTFS, Windows created a partition for you automatically. It might have called it "initializing".
shimrod wrote: ...While I did format it after performing the diagnostics I did not partition it.
You can re-insert the disk in the PC, and delete the partition (which returns the drive to the unformatted state that the NAS prefers). You do this by right-clicking on Computer (or My Computer) and selecting "Manage". You'll see the disk in the storage section. Right-click on the volume and delete it. Then eject the drive. Be careful to click on the right drive!
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