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RND2000-2000NAS unable to reload the OS after brand new hard drives
Hello, to whomI am having a problem with reloading the OS for my RND2000-200NAS. I had to replace both of my hard drives due to hard drive failure. I am following all of the steps to get it back onli...
Are the drives in question formatted? YES
If so, use a PC to remove all partitions and try again.
You should not have to do anything special to install the OS to the new drives.
Does RAIDar show the NAS at all and the drives as present, or "no disks"? YES (I am getting CORRUPT ROOT)
Can you get into Dashboard at all? NO
If it doesn't show the NAS at all, does it with no drives installed?
Are you 100% sure your drives failed and not the NAS itself? DO NOT KNOW
Or maybe the power supply? POWER IS ON
Have you tested the new drives? YES
It's unlikely you got two bad ones, but I suppose it could happen. MAYBE TEST SAY NO
Then you need to unformat the drives -- remove any partitions they contain -- or perform a factory default. Refer to page 27 of the hardware manual: ReadyNAS_Duov2_NV+v2_HW_en_23-Mar-12.pdf . The NAS uses it's own drive formatting, and the existing format is confusing it.
unformat the drives -- remove any partitions they contain --
What do you mean (unformat). The drives do not have any partitions they are just wiped out. I wiped them using windows 10 (I Did not do any (create partitions) on them.
Try doing the factory default procedure on pages 16-17 of the manual here:
I said to unformat them because you replied that they were, in fact, already formatted, though you now seem to believe they are not. How did you "wipe them with Windows 10"? Windows itself will not typically "wipe" a drive with no partitions, though there are programs that run under it that can. So whether you created one or the drive was purchased with one already present, there may be a partition there. That is consistent with the error you are getting.
But you don't seem to have even considered the second option, which StephenB has also suggested.
- Thanks for that information about windows and that it's not a true wipe of the hard drives. As of right now the drivers are being wiped clean. I will test when they are done. The second part of your quote yes I did. I did read those instructions before posting IE this is why i posted my issue because it's NOT CLEAR with those instructions. Also had to find a youtube video to make sense of it.
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