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Duo will not boot; hard drives work in Windows only
I had a ReadyNAS Duo that was unable to boot--it was stuck on the blinking blue light, and it sounded like the drives were clicking and attempting to boot up but could not boot fully. I tried perform...
StephenB wrote: Ok. So the drives used to work in a duo. Now a different duo locks up with either drive installed (so RAIDar can't see it). Both drives pass Seatools. And a 500GB drive works ok in the duo.
Is that the right summary?
Yes, that is correct.
StephenB wrote:
Does anything change if you delete the partitions on the hard drives? You can do this with Windows. Of course this would mean that you'd have to rebuild the NAS from your backup.
I already had deleted the partitions on one of the 1TB drives, but the Duo still didn't boot up with just that drive inside.
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