Hi - i have the readynas duo with 1 drive. a week or so ago i lost power and brought the nas back online. for over a week i can't access it via raidar while the power light (blue) has a slow blink of about 3 times, pauses, and then starts blinking agan about 3 times, over and over. the green light is on for drive 1 and no light on drive 2. i have no idea what the firmware level is. ideas on how to handle this issue?

See here: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=324 "3 – Bad contents on root partition of disks"You can try an OS reinstall, though if it you have a backup it might be simpler to just do a factory default.You will need to know whether you have a V1 or V2. THE LABEL IS CONFUSING. If you purchased more than a year ago, you have a V1. There is a guide here: http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how ... -or-nv-v2/To do an OS reinstall, you can check the following guide:http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how ... _boot_menuFor V1, you use the "Duo / NV / NV+ / X6/600" section, for V2 you use "Ultra 2 / Ultra 2 Plus / Pro 2 / Duo v2"

thanks a lot for the reply. any idea if the os reinstall kills my data?

An OS re-install will preserve your data, but a Factory Default will wipe the whole NAS, so be very careful how long you have the reset button pushed in for when you start up the NAS.

gibxxi wrote:An OS re-install will preserve your data, but a Factory Default will wipe the whole NAS, so be very careful how long you have the reset button pushed in for when you start up the NAS.Yes. Though of course your data is at risk - if the OS partition is corrupt, it is possible that there is also something wrong with the data partition.

so i did a reset and the nas came back up under raidar with no blinking patterns. the first time i tried to browse the nas from raidar it work but when i tried to open a folder it hung. now when i find the nas and hit browse, i get an error showing the ip address and "The specified network name is no longer available." Any idea what's going on now?

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dekkit
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Dec 15, 2012
had a similar issue recently...(as posted elsewhere here)

After doing a lot of activity (moving folders, renaming, rescanning DLNA folders) on the readyduo (2bay SPARC ver.) it became unresponsive, so I pulled the plug. On reboot the blue light would pulsate / blink forever, sometimes the hdd lights would come on and stay on (on other reboots they wouldn't)... in all cases frontview or my shares wouldn't appear. Left it for 24 hours to let it sort itself out but it was still 'broken' when i checked on it the next day.

Holding the power button for certain periods, I tried skipping the diskcheck, installing from usb...but still no success. After trying to mount the disks in the VMware (see forums) with no success, I managed to access and back up the data using R studio's RTOOLs (which was simple enough but it didn't find all the files ).

Before doing a complete factory reset, having backed up most of the data, i decided to try an OS reinstall first (holding the reset button pinhole at the back of the duo for 5 seconds until the hdd Leds light up)...and sure enough after a few reboots it was back up and running - with no data loss (it did however reset the admin password to "netgear1"). Glad i didn't jump to the factory default option (as this destroys your data).

So now i'm back up and running with all data available.

Naturally i'm now backing up everything fully and adjusting my backup processes to ensure this won't be such a big impact next time.

Hope that's of some help.
Dek

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