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Aspirant

May 22, 2020

ReadyNas RN2120 Corrupt Root

Am looking for help to start my NAS again. I am in the stage where I already did a hard factory reset, with the pin at the front. Even that, when I boot, I get "corrupt root" message on RAIDar. Follo...

icecoldbaseball

Aspirant

May 22, 2020

I stuck a fresh drive in the Nas and RAIDar said installing and then corrupt root.

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

May 23, 2020

icecoldbaseball wrote:

I stuck a fresh drive in the Nas and RAIDar said installing and then corrupt root.

Test the drives in the PC with vendor tools (lifeguard for western digital; seatools for seagate). I recommend running both the extended non-destructive test and a full write-zeros test.

If it's not the drives, then it could be a problem with the firmware image in the flash.

icecoldbaseball
Aspirant
May 23, 2020
Drives pass no issues.
If it's a problem with the firmware image in the flash. How can we fix that? I can telnet into device from two different tech support modes. One says debug Telnet and another says debug and some numbers.
- Marc_V
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  May 24, 2020
  icecoldbaseball
  
  Welcome to the Community!
  
  You may want to try doing USB Recovery
  
  https://kb.netgear.com/29952/How-do-I-use-the-USB-Recovery-Tool-on-my-ReadyNAS-OS-6-storage-system
  
  HTH
  - icecoldbaseball
    Aspirant
    May 24, 2020
    I tried the arm instructions it didnt do anything from what I can see. I copied the files to the usb but no image file
    And the usb tool did everything I did but with the image file.
    
    I rebooted the ReadyNas and tried to get it to go into USB Boot but it seems it goes into Tech Support Mode Debug with random numbers.