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semola1
Tutor
Nov 15, 2015
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External Disk not recognized

Hi all,   I have disconnected a USB external disk for few days from my Netgear RN102. Now, when I have reconnected it, the Nas doesn't recognize the disk. The data are safe, if I connect the disk d...
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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    Nov 17, 2015

    Your logs indicate

    volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set

    If you hook the external disk up to your PC and repair it you should then be able to connect it to the NAS again.

semola1's avatar
semola1
Tutor
Nov 16, 2015

Hi BrianL,

 

before writing to community I have already tested the disk without any error.

 

I'm perplexed to upgrade my nas to a beta release, because on internal disk I have all my backups.

 

The beta release is stable? Can I update without problem?

 

Thanks

 

Semola1 

mdgm-ntgr's avatar
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 17, 2015

Your logs indicate

volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set

If you hook the external disk up to your PC and repair it you should then be able to connect it to the NAS again.

  • semola1's avatar
    semola1
    Tutor
    Nov 17, 2015

    I have repeated the disk test and I solved.

     

    Thanks.

     

    Marcello

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