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Reset readynas pro
Hello, I received a old Readynas PRo 6 from a friend. It starts right up and 'readynas' appears on the screen. I cannot get this to go to boot mode. I have held in the little reset button on the ba...
Hello kliest,
If the boot menu is not accessible with or without the hard drives inserted then there is a possibility we are looking at hardware fault on the NAS.
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Marty_M
NETGEAR Community Team
Your friend mis-informed you. The NAS boots from the disks except when the disks are unformatted, in which case it boots from Flash memory for the sole purpose of creating a disk volume and installing the OS to it. It should come up and say "No Disks" when booted without any, though. With one or more dirty (previously used in another OS) drives, it may hang.
Put at least one drive in it that has no partitoning information at all and boot from that. Use Windows Disk Management or an appropriate tool from another OS to remove partition information from a previously used drive.
Once you have confirmed it works, you may want to look at the threads regarding putting OS 6.x on your ReadyNAS Pro. Doing so requires a complete reset, so doing it before you start putting data on the NAS is a good time for it.
If it still doesn't work, come back and we will try to help you. A power supply problem is a common issue with the older NASes, but it could be something more or less complicated. You can decide how much time and money you want to put into this gift horse.
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