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Aspirant

Nov 20, 2015

Solved

Locked Hard Drives

Hi, About 2 months ago I bought ReadyNAS DUO. I put in there 2 x WD RE4 2TB. Unfortunately, I had to change NAS to something faster so I sell this NAS (without hard disk). Today when I try...

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mdgm-ntgr
Nov 20, 2015
See this thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Drives-quot-locked-quot-after-being-in-NV-HELP/td-p/561145

BrianL2

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Nov 24, 2015

Hi amator,

Thanks for the update. Have you tried using a different drive? Trying this would let us know if you have to try the workaround from the link mdgm provided.

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

amator

Aspirant

Nov 24, 2015

nope, I did't for now.

In mdgm link i read that he solve problem with rebulid xraid, so I try this for now.

for i=0:15
         password[i] = 0xbeef + i; // 2-byte short word
We use big-endian while Intel uses little-endian, so password
on PC may be: 0xefbe, 0xf0be, ... Sorry for picking up beef as password.

I don't know programming so I don't know what other combination will be. I try first 2 provides with no result.

JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 25, 2015
Hello amator,

Try sending PM to mdgm about the commands.

Regards,
- amator
  Aspirant
  Nov 25, 2015
  Disk are now unlocked :)
  
  I left this for a night. In the morrning everything was OK. It take couple hours.
  
  I want say thank you to you all for help.
  - mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Nov 25, 2015
    Thanks for the update. Glad it is now resolved.