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Dead Disk replacement - Volume Dead #19774843
Hi, Is there any way to manually recover a dead volume? I have a Pro6. Disk #1 died. I replaced the disk. During the resync, disk #6 died. I removed and reseated disk #6. About a minute later, ...
Ugh.
Before you do anything else, you need to contact Netgear for their advice. In broad terms, a two-disk failure on an Xraid array is catastrophic. Pulling and reseating a drive adds to data recovery complexity, as the NAS wants to format the replaced drive as new.
So, all may not be lost, but you really need Netgear to have a chance to look at it before we recommend something that might cause further damage.
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Before you do anything else, you need to contact Netgear for their advice. In broad terms, a two-disk failure on an Xraid array is catastrophic. Pulling and reseating a drive adds to data recovery complexity, as the NAS wants to format the replaced drive as new.
So, all may not be lost, but you really need Netgear to have a chance to look at it before we recommend something that might cause further damage.
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