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vandermerwe
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Oct 30, 2014
StephenB wrote:
vandermerwe wrote:
Swarty210 wrote:


Should I try cloning disk 1 to the replacement disk, or will the unit sync the new drive at/after boot?


You could try cloning disk 1 to the replacement disk, using a cloning tool on a PC.
You can then try the clone in slot 1 and try to boot. If the clone is successful, the readynas shouldn't try to resync to that disk.
Yes, but if he isn't seeing data when he boots up w/o disk 1, he still won't see it when he boots up with the cloned disk.

So I don't see much point to it.


I thought, as OP had got closest to booting with all 4 disks in, that a clone may allow the unit to boot without declaring disk 1 as having failed.

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