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RN104 and replacing HHD with brand new one
Hi, I need your help pls. In my RN104 I have 4+2+2+4 TB disks. Now one ( the oldest one 2TB ) died, on admin page appeared status: Degraded ( yellow mark ). Volume type RAID 5. So I bought brand ne...
Yes, I have Xraid enabled and maybe thats why I cant do new Volume on new HDD ?
But in the picture in the menu Volumes I can see only 3 drives a the place of new one is empty, not grey drive, like on this picture:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-to-ReadyNAS/ReadyNas104-Adding-a-new-hard-drive/td-p/984673
In manual on Netgear site i found:
and
https://kb.netgear.com/22891/How-do-I-access-the-boot-menu-on-my-ReadyNAS-104-204-214-or-314
I would try do to Factory default with only the new disk ( the 3 old disks take out from NAS ), but I need to know, that if I won´t be sucessfull, I can put back my 3 old drives and the data will still be on them.
majtik wrote:
I would try do to Factory default with only the new disk ( the 3 old disks take out from NAS ), but I need to know, that if I won´t be sucessfull, I can put back my 3 old drives and the data will still be on them.
Don't do that, it won't accomplish anything. If you try to add the three old drives back, you will lose all your data. You'd have to boot with only the old disks installed, and then reinsert the new one. Then reformat it to add it to the array, which undoes the factory default.
The NAS doesn't seem to be detecting the new disk. That suggests the disk might have failed (perhaps during shipment). Can you test it in a Windows PC with WDC's lifeguard program? You can attach it either with SATA or using a USB dock/adapter.
Then reformat it to add it to the array, which undoes the factory default.
1. How can I do that ? ( step by step pls )
Can you test it in a Windows PC with WDC's lifeguard program? You can attach it either with SATA or using a USB dock/adapter
I attached it firstly using USB adapter - Win 10 - In administration of disk, I can see it, but it is not incialized - I tried - but got some error - but this can happen when connected via USB adapter ( as I found in some discussions ) )
I will probably open PC case and connect it directly via SATA cable, but if I make inicialization and format in PC , is it possible to add it to the NAS without Factory default and loosing of my data ?
Or can I use WDC's lifeguard program without inicialization ( or with inicialization but without format ) ?
And last general question: If I have only disk from PC ( formated FAT 32 or NTFS ) and want to use it in NAS ( Xraid) to replace one of disks, it is impossible to preserve my data on NAS ???
majtik wrote:
Then reformat it to add it to the array, which undoes the factory default.
1. How can I do that ? ( step by step pls )
The point is not to do that, it accomplishes nothing.
majtik wrote:
I attached it firstly using USB adapter - Win 10 - In administration of disk, I can see it, but it is not incialized - I tried - but got some error - but this can happen when connected via USB adapter ( as I found in some discussions ) )
You don't want to initialize it. Lifeguard should still be able to detect it and test it.
majtik wrote:
And last general question: If I have only disk from PC ( formated FAT 32 or NTFS ) and want to use it in NAS ( Xraid) to replace one of disks, it is impossible to preserve my data on NAS ???
You can't preserve data that way, the NAS isn't using those formats.
Thx for answers,
1. OK, i will try to run Lifeguard test connecting via SATA directly, without inicialization or formating ( tomorrow, tady I´m not at home ).
Btw. inicialization of HDD ( without format ) in PC means, that it will be unusable for the NAS already ?
2. There´s really not possibility to connect used HDD from PC ( FAT 32, NTFS ) to NAS ( xraid ) without loosing data ?
No way to format it in NAS ( without loosing data form other disks in Xraid ) ?
No way to " delete" FAT 32 or NTFS format and make the disk like it is new one without format ?
It means, I must copy 6 TB of data somewhere ( but where, omg ??? ), do Factory default and than copy it back ?
I can´t believe that .....
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