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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...
Ok. So its not the content on the drives, and they failed in 2 duos, but pass Seatools and seem to work ok in Windows.
The quickest option is to get 2 new drives, and re-purpose the older ones. Though it is annoying to have to do this with no theory/explanation.
What firmware is running in the Duo? You could potentially try reinstalling the firmware (and perhaps the bios) with the 500 GB drive in place, and give it one more try.
Maybe also check on the seagate site for firmware updates on the drives themselves.
The quickest option is to get 2 new drives, and re-purpose the older ones. Though it is annoying to have to do this with no theory/explanation.
What firmware is running in the Duo? You could potentially try reinstalling the firmware (and perhaps the bios) with the 500 GB drive in place, and give it one more try.
Maybe also check on the seagate site for firmware updates on the drives themselves.
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