Factory reset still going after 20 hoours?

Hi Everyone

Thanks for all your input and encouragement. The good news seems to be that I'm on the road to success.

The original attempt at the factory reset seemed to have failed. After the power lead got knocked out, the NAS restarted and went back to its original state. I could access it through RAIDar and Windows Explorer, and see the data, but couldn't log in to the admin functions.

I deleted all the data through Explorer and left it overnight to settle down. The LEDs had stopped flashing by the morning, and I re-tried the factory reset. This time it has worked, and again once it had finished all its flashing, I could access the admin functions with the standard password. I've now been through the setup process, setting the password to something I can remember! It's now busy doing a re-boot after I updated the firmware.

There was also a bizarre piece of co-incidence too. I opened my email this morning to find an email delivery failure notice. The original email was from a month ago when I tried the password recovery process. This had a new password that I coud have used all along had I been able to see the email!

Thanks once again.

Gavin