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duo v2 not taking hard drives
Just purchased a duo v2. Hard drive wd 20 ears X 2 .ok getting corrupt root , tired factory default reset and os reinstall, did not work, that even gave on one drive a bad disk in raidar. So I again p...
Huh? Normally for the NAS you would delete all the partitions in Windows (or do nothing in Windows at all, leaving the NAS to figure out that it needs to reformat).
brewster0101 wrote: Make sure you have completely merged all the partitions into one. I had issues and found that Windows had left 8K adrift when merging the partitions.
kelgeo wrote: yes I did a factory reset with just the one drive in. I'm using the wd program to write zero's to hard drive, it's 5 hours long, then I will try again, if not next step is to order a 2 gig which is a waste since I've moved on to 3 gig's , that's why I like the nas, I had a place to put these 2 gigs, and put in their external case 3 gig drives. But time is money and this is eating too much time.
There is no need to write zeros except perhaps as a diagnostic.
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