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Netgear ReadyNAS 104 says NO VOLUMNS EXISTS
I started getting the error " Windows cannot access" a few weeks ago and I couldn't log in to the web interface so I did an OS install to set the admin password back to factory. Is there any way to g...
tsimons wrote:
I disconnected DISK 2 and it did speed up the process but I got this error (See attched). I was pretty sure that it was RAID 5 but this seems like it wasn't.
I'm a bit confused on DISK 2, since the screenshot says DISK 3 is not selected.
If you have (or purchase) another 3 TB drive, you could try cloning the disk - using software that does sector by sector copying. There are several free packages that will work. That likely will take a while, and could result in the disk totally failing. But cloning is often less stressful than the RAID Recovery.
I numbered the drives as I took them out of the ReadyNAS and it was DISK 2. I guess it's is showing up in the ReclaiMe software as DISK 3 because of how they were connected to the SATA bus.
tsimons wrote:
I numbered the drives as I took them out of the ReadyNAS and it was DISK 2. I guess it's is showing up in the ReclaiMe software as DISK 3 because of how they were connected to the SATA bus.
Ok.
Taking the error message at face value: Cloning the clicking disk is probably the best option - hopefully it won't fail while you are doing that.
Note that if you are running RAID-0, then removing any disk would have produced this error very quickly. So while the evidence points to disk 2 (disks aren't supposed to click), it is conceivable that errors on another disk are actually creating the problem.
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