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New to ReadyNas Need help please
Hi All Im a stranger here and really need adivce, i have a Readynas Duo V2 for over 4 years now with no problems, i had 1 x single 2TB WD Red HDD and running out of space, i now just purcahesed a...
What you're proposing is not straightforward. What you should have done is backup the data from the 2TB disk onto a USB disk. Then power down, remove the 2TB disk, put the 6TB disk and restore from the backup on the USB disk.
Yes in heinside that is what i should of done, if i set up the new disk, can i the install the 2 TB in the other drive and would that acheive anything.
Thank you
martin19 wrote:
if i set up the new disk, can i the install the 2 TB in the other drive and would that acheive anything.
No. And in many cases, that will wipe the data on the 2 TB drive.
If your 2 TB drive is intact, then you can still follow mdgm's procedure.
- Power down the NAS,
- Remove the 6 TB drive and restore the 2 TB model.
- Power up the NAS - your data should be there.
- Back up the data to a USB drive or possibly a PC internal drive.
- Power down the NAS again, and go back to the 6 TB drive (installed by itself).
You can also try installing r-linux for windows on the PC, and see if that can access the data on the USB drive.
Thanks Stephen, really appreciate your help, yeh when i put the 2 TB disk mback in in the Raidr its asking me to do a set up which i would asmume if i did it would delete all of me data, so i have not proceeded, can you confirm if i perform the set up as its asking me to do in the Raidr software will i loose the data.
The other issue now and i dont know why, is i have a Corupt Root with the 2 TB drive not sure why, i would asume this happed due to the new drive installed, so it looks like i may need to recover the datat using thae Linux software.
Thank you
martin19 wrote:
can you confirm if i perform the set up as its asking me to do in the Raidr software will i loose the data.
Certainly you don't want to do a setup.
Was the NAS powered down when you removed the 6 TB drive and put the 2 TB disk back in?
martin19 wrote:
.The other issue now and i dont know why, is i have a Corupt Root with the 2 TB drive not sure why, i would asume this happed due to the new drive installed, so it looks like i may need to recover the datat using thae Linux software.
If you see a corrupt root when you boot the system with only the 2 TB system installed, then you might need to switch to using R-linux for windows or something similar.
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