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Does OS Reinstall *REALLY* reset the Admin password?
I'm helping a nonprofit that has all their data locked up in a ReadyNAS NVX 4250... and no records on the recovery email or PW. I've used the front panel to reload the OS. RAIDar does find it, an...
They have 100% of all of their valuable data for the last five years on the ReadyNAS so Factory Reset is not exactly an option.
Thanks for the confirmation, which tells me I did get the process and password correct, and it doesn't work. :(
Question: I've heard there's an (old-style) "hack" to load the OS from USB...
- Might it more fully reset the password?
- Are there any issues due to the fact that this box is running 4.2.5? (I saw a note about not going back to 4.2.5 after updating to 4.2.7 and beyond... that nudges me to imagine there was a significant change after 4.2.5...)
Thanks!
pete
MrPeteH wrote:
They have 100% of all of their valuable data for the last five years on the ReadyNAS so Factory Reset is not exactly an option.
4.2.5 is very old. You might try install an ancient (e.g. ~2007) version of firefox, and see if that allows you to log in.
If SMB access still works, you can offload the data before the reset. Painful, but possible.
4.2.6 was special firmware for the 3200, the first of our 12-bay units.
We did start mounting EXT3 volumes as EXT4 on 4.2.7.
USB Boot Recovery is not meant to be used to update the firmware and there are some possible side effects from using it.
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