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Aspirant

Oct 28, 2015

Blinking power light

Hi folks, I know this is a long shot - but here it goes: I purchased a Infrant ReadyNAS NV back in 2006, before Netgear had purchased Infrant. I've been using my NAS on and off but haven'...

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JennC

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Oct 28, 2015

Hello jnguy1,

Welcome to the community!

mdgm wrote:

You could try powering off the NAS, hooking the disks (label order) up to your PC and checking them e.g. use SeaTools for SeaGate disks and WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for WD disks.

You might want to check How can I verify that my disk is bad? article.

Make sure to label the order of the disks, like mdgm mentioned. You need to put them back in the same exact order. That is very important to keep data intact.

Regards,

jnguy1

Aspirant

Nov 08, 2015

I've labeled them - but I have switched the order in an attempt to determine if it was the bay or the drive that was causing the issue. I've reverted them back - will they still work?

I've also tried running SeaTools to repair the drive, but have been unsuccessful. I'm going to try again by booting into windows.

Thanks for the suggestions.

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 08, 2015
The NAS is supposed to boot even with the drives out of order. If you did your tests of disk-swapping with the NAS powered down, you should be ok.

Did Seatools find something wrong? I think its best not to use the "repair" feature with the NAS.

One thing often worth trying - booting the NAS w/o disk 1, then w/o disk 2 (but with disk 1), until you've tried booting with each drive missing. Be careful to keep the NAS powered down when inserting/removing the drives.