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Re-use old REadyNAs HDD's
Hi, I got a 1TB drive that was in use on my old ReadyNAS Duo (RND2000 V2). Deciding that it is more useful in a PC, I've connected it internally to a newly built Windows 10 PC. But, It shows up in D...
Thanks, I'll give that a go...,
StephenBThis is the procedure I always use to recycle my HDD to be reused on ReadyNas devices but Windows reformat stuff is suficient.
aalexandrebeta wrote:
StephenB This is the procedure I always use to recycle my HDD to be reused on ReadyNas devices but Windows reformat stuff is suficient.
OS 6 NAS won't add a formatted drive to the RAID array w/o confimation. They will add unformatted drives immediately (which sometimes is a bit simpler).
One way to unformat a drive is to use the quick zeros write test in Lifeguard. Another is to delete each "volume" on the disk with the windows disk manager (which deletes the partitions).
StephenB I really prefer a clean in order to avoid issues when the device rebuild the array!!!
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