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"Found Bad Disk" Recovery
I have an NV+ with 4.1.8. It's been running for several years. Recently it refused to boot with the message "found bad disk" on the LCD. Based on info from searching around in the forum, I pulled d...
claykin wrote: Is the new disk on the HCL? http://www.readynas.com/?cat=37
Have you tried to remove disk 1 (the new disk) and boot the NAS?
The new drive is ST2000DL003. It shows on the HCL list. I plan to replace the other disks as well if this works, and double my capacity in the process...
If I remove the new drive the unit boots. I don't see the old shares at all at this point. If I put the old one back in boot fails.
The other odd thing thing is that looking back at the log it was drive 3 not drive 1 that reported SMART errors.
mdgm wrote:
Was it purchased on/after Aug 21, 2007?
I would suggest you contact NetGear tech support
that seems like a bother... I was hoping that it would be straightforward -- replace failed drive and then replace the others...
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