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hard drive upgrade (replace existing)
I have a NV+ that has 4x750GB drives configured as XRaid and running v4.1.5. FYI, I never expanded their capability to the additional 40gb. In any case, I am about to replace the 4 drives with 4x1.5...
After the 4th drive finished initialization and the sync process failed, I removed and reinserted the drive. It then restarted the sync process and finished in the appropriate amount of time.
With guidance of another member, I restarted the NAS. It asked me to restart once again. When it restarted the second time it told me it was starting 'expanding'. It took quite sometime but it counted the percentage complete until 100%. It then restarted on its own and again, went through 'expanding'. This time, it completed to 100% very rapidly (30 seconds?). It then restarted again. This time, it showed expanding but unfortunately is still showing 0% after nearly 7 hours! The drive lights are rotating (1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4, etc.) and the activity light is flashing but in an irregular pattern. When I hover over the 'vol disk' button on raidar it is still showing me the capacity of my original 4x 750GB drives. The power button is slowing fading in and out. Raidar is showing the same. Obviously, I can't use Frontview as the NAS is not fully booted.
What do I do now? Is this related to the 4th drive not syncing properly the first time? Would seem like i need to call support at this point?
With guidance of another member, I restarted the NAS. It asked me to restart once again. When it restarted the second time it told me it was starting 'expanding'. It took quite sometime but it counted the percentage complete until 100%. It then restarted on its own and again, went through 'expanding'. This time, it completed to 100% very rapidly (30 seconds?). It then restarted again. This time, it showed expanding but unfortunately is still showing 0% after nearly 7 hours! The drive lights are rotating (1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4, etc.) and the activity light is flashing but in an irregular pattern. When I hover over the 'vol disk' button on raidar it is still showing me the capacity of my original 4x 750GB drives. The power button is slowing fading in and out. Raidar is showing the same. Obviously, I can't use Frontview as the NAS is not fully booted.
What do I do now? Is this related to the 4th drive not syncing properly the first time? Would seem like i need to call support at this point?
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