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external USB drive not seen
Hi, I just bought a Readynas RN212 as a replacement for my Duo (v1). But the external USB drive (Toshiba 2.5 inch, ext3), which I was using as backup for my Duo and always worked perfecly, isn't ...
Hello espakman,
Does this USB have the data from the volume of your old Duo? If not and is possible to format it, use NTFS.
If it has all the data, it is it may be best you contact support for the RN212 so this can be checked from the backend.
Regards,
Hello espakman,
Have you tried all the USB ports of the NAS? What's the USB version of the USB disk?
Regards,
Hello JennC,
i have tried all USB ports. It's an USB 2.0 disk.
ReadyNAS OS version 6.4.2
Regards,
Eric
Hello espakman,
Does this USB have the data from the volume of your old Duo? If not and is possible to format it, use NTFS.
If it has all the data, it is it may be best you contact support for the RN212 so this can be checked from the backend.
Regards,
Hello JennC,
the drive indeed contained the data of the old DUO. But I made a new backup on an other drive and formatted the USB with NTFS. It is detected now, so case solved. Thanks for your help.
kind regards,
Eric
Hello espakman,
Great! You're most welcome.
Please feel free to post any suggestions, questions and comments as we appreciate all the contribution here.
Regards,
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