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Duo V1 crashed #23954328
Please can someone help, My ReadyNas Duo V1 crashed yesterday (Sunday) and it has all my holiday and family photos on it for the last ten years. When I have a single drive in it Raidar sees the unit...
I haven't heard anything one way or another about diskinternal's paid tool in this forum. If Netgear's price is very high, then you could risk paying for diskinternal's tool first. It should be non-destructive.
Scenario (1) - new disk is blank
case 1a - The NAS could potentially decide that it was a new install, since one drive was unformatted and the other not bootable. In that case, the factory install wipes the old drive.
case 1b - The NAS sees the formatted drive, tries to boot and fails - leaving you where you are now.
Scenario (2) - new disk is formatted for the NAS already
case 2a - the NAS treats the old disk as a newly inserted drive, and syncs the old disk to the empty new one. This wipes your data
case 2b - the NAS sees the old disk as formatted, and refuses to sync - again leaving you where you are now.
The outcome you are wanting is that the NAS would reinstall the OS on the old disk (new->old), but sync the data volume in the opposite direction (old->new). That just won't happen.
An OS reinstall might possibly work, but given your strong need to get the data back with minimum risk, I'd start with Netgear support.
Well, you have one disk with a corrupt OS partition, and a second that is either (1) blank or (2) already formatted for the NAS
AdrianReady wrote: I thought Raid technology was supposed to copy things across seemlessly and automatically.
Scenario (1) - new disk is blank
case 1a - The NAS could potentially decide that it was a new install, since one drive was unformatted and the other not bootable. In that case, the factory install wipes the old drive.
case 1b - The NAS sees the formatted drive, tries to boot and fails - leaving you where you are now.
Scenario (2) - new disk is formatted for the NAS already
case 2a - the NAS treats the old disk as a newly inserted drive, and syncs the old disk to the empty new one. This wipes your data
case 2b - the NAS sees the old disk as formatted, and refuses to sync - again leaving you where you are now.
The outcome you are wanting is that the NAS would reinstall the OS on the old disk (new->old), but sync the data volume in the opposite direction (old->new). That just won't happen.
An OS reinstall might possibly work, but given your strong need to get the data back with minimum risk, I'd start with Netgear support.
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