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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
OK, totally confused.
I switched NAS off few days ago. Now I just clicked on its icon on network resources .. and went in the NAS room to power it up...... to find it ON, door open as I left it, saying "Disk 1 fail, C: unprotected" !!!.
It booted up by itself.... I did not even know that it would answer network calls if it was off (I ticked a box for that, but that was because I want to have access while away. I always assumed that it needed to be "ON", but maybe asleep). Why do I ever bother to leave it on, if it is going to power-up like that?
All files seem to be there. But as I said, if I remember right and I had 38% free on 3x3Tb HDs, that is 62% of 5.6TB = 3.5TB of data, I opened a couple of directories and clicked on few files, apart from the delay because I am on the WiFi, everything came up ok, but it is near-impossible to know if I had data loss until I hit a corrupt file.
OK so next move is hot-insert HD4 in bay1.
Then run Seatools 2.23 for dos (you suggested the vendor's software) and write 0s (now I know which of my hiren disks has a working copy of SeaTools). I also have Acronis Disk Manager, but for partition work I used DiskGenius (now renamed Partition Guru or something like that), which also has a "verify and repair bad tracks" tool.. silly me, I should have tried that instead of Victoria...
But then, it might have said that HD1 is OK, just as everything else has done so far - apart from NAS.... and the "temperamental" Victoria
I switched NAS off few days ago. Now I just clicked on its icon on network resources .. and went in the NAS room to power it up...... to find it ON, door open as I left it, saying "Disk 1 fail, C: unprotected" !!!.
It booted up by itself.... I did not even know that it would answer network calls if it was off (I ticked a box for that, but that was because I want to have access while away. I always assumed that it needed to be "ON", but maybe asleep). Why do I ever bother to leave it on, if it is going to power-up like that?
All files seem to be there. But as I said, if I remember right and I had 38% free on 3x3Tb HDs, that is 62% of 5.6TB = 3.5TB of data, I opened a couple of directories and clicked on few files, apart from the delay because I am on the WiFi, everything came up ok, but it is near-impossible to know if I had data loss until I hit a corrupt file.
OK so next move is hot-insert HD4 in bay1.
Then run Seatools 2.23 for dos (you suggested the vendor's software) and write 0s (now I know which of my hiren disks has a working copy of SeaTools). I also have Acronis Disk Manager, but for partition work I used DiskGenius (now renamed Partition Guru or something like that), which also has a "verify and repair bad tracks" tool.. silly me, I should have tried that instead of Victoria...
But then, it might have said that HD1 is OK, just as everything else has done so far - apart from NAS.... and the "temperamental" Victoria
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