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Ready Nas Duo has died
Hi,
After a power cut my ReadyNas Duo seems to have dies.
I Tried to reboot it and got a slow flashing power light. I have tried to reboot it with no disks inserted and it does boot up but if there is a drive installed it wont boot. I have tried with 1 drive inserted in either slot but no joy.
It is currently showing a slow flashing blue power light, disk 1 light is flashing steadily constantly and disk 2 light is on steady.
I am not too concerned about the device but would like to recover the data.
Can somebody point me in the right direction to get my data back. I have a slot in usb disk drive caddy which I have linked to my windows 8 PC bit it doesnt recognise the drive.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Regards
ZIP
After a power cut my ReadyNas Duo seems to have dies.
I Tried to reboot it and got a slow flashing power light. I have tried to reboot it with no disks inserted and it does boot up but if there is a drive installed it wont boot. I have tried with 1 drive inserted in either slot but no joy.
It is currently showing a slow flashing blue power light, disk 1 light is flashing steadily constantly and disk 2 light is on steady.
I am not too concerned about the device but would like to recover the data.
Can somebody point me in the right direction to get my data back. I have a slot in usb disk drive caddy which I have linked to my windows 8 PC bit it doesnt recognise the drive.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Regards
ZIP
4 Replies
- Sorry meant to say I have a USB Dynamode USB Docking station which I have tried a drive in but windows doesnt see the drive.
Cheers - Windows won't "see" the internal drives of the duo because it doesn't recognize the ext (linux) format.
Try Linux Reader (freeware) from http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
Mount disk 1 into the dock. - Thank you, That has worked and I can now see my files.
Should I leave the disk out and reset the nas with new drives installed to see if it comes back to life???
regards
Chris - I'd take the opportunity to back up the files while you can see them. That also will let you know if there are any files that can't be read. I'd also look at the SMART stats in windows (acronis drive monitor is one of several freeware utilities that will show them).
If you have new disks for the NAS, then you can then simply insert them (powered down), and power up the NAS. It should reset automatically if the drives are unformatted.
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