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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...
So, claykin, I decided to try your advice and since all my drives were seagates, I went with the seatools first.
Fortunately I have a windows PC which is somewhat disassembled since I am converting it for use by my kids. This made it fairly easy to hook up the drives and run seatools.
I tested all the drives and drives 1, 3 and 4 ALL failed the basic self test! So as the seatools documentation recommended, I used the DOS boot CD image they provide to boot and run the "long test" to "repair" the disks. I had to run it twice on disk 1, and after I was done, disk 4 had no partition table, so I tried a partition repair tool and that didn't work, so I copied the MBR from disk 2 to disk 4, but that didn't work either.
Anyway, once I plugged disks 1, 2 and 3 back into the ReadyNAS and did yet another "OS re-install", the unit booted right up!! As I write this I'm copying off several years of Quicken data backups, family photos and iTunes purchases!! Yay!!
:woot: :woot:
Given a total of some 200 bad sectors "repaired" by seatools, I'm guessing some of my files may be corrupted, but a few hundred sectors is a tiny fraction of 400+GB, so most are saved!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Fortunately I have a windows PC which is somewhat disassembled since I am converting it for use by my kids. This made it fairly easy to hook up the drives and run seatools.
I tested all the drives and drives 1, 3 and 4 ALL failed the basic self test! So as the seatools documentation recommended, I used the DOS boot CD image they provide to boot and run the "long test" to "repair" the disks. I had to run it twice on disk 1, and after I was done, disk 4 had no partition table, so I tried a partition repair tool and that didn't work, so I copied the MBR from disk 2 to disk 4, but that didn't work either.
Anyway, once I plugged disks 1, 2 and 3 back into the ReadyNAS and did yet another "OS re-install", the unit booted right up!! As I write this I'm copying off several years of Quicken data backups, family photos and iTunes purchases!! Yay!!
:woot: :woot:
Given a total of some 200 bad sectors "repaired" by seatools, I'm guessing some of my files may be corrupted, but a few hundred sectors is a tiny fraction of 400+GB, so most are saved!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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