have i disabled raid properly

Yes I just had 1 drive in originally. My mistake was that I was trying to bulk change access permissions within a folder and instead of ./* -r I typed /* -r That missing period was quite significant. I ended up messing up the permissions on all the system folders. At the time I could close and open SSH and frontview sessions just fine, but now after a reboot it is not liking it, possibly as the security rules require certain privileges on certain folders. That was my mistake, and now I am paying the price.

The nature of my fault as it stands is:
SSH fails as follows:
$ ssh root@192.168.1.64
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.64 port 22: Connection refused

while frontview fails as follows
request URL https://192.168.1.64/admin/
gives me
"Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."

Looks like I'll be trying out the reading the disc off a PC option. (I'd tried with a virtual machine on my windows PC this morning but it didn't seem to detect the drive - so I clearly have a bit more digging to get that working - but that is outside the scope of this post)

Thanks for the clarificaton that I can't just pop the drive into my Readynas though.

Andy