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NV+ Failed replacing drives
Have a NV+ v1 with 2 500GB drives. Decided to replace with new, 1TB WD Red drives. Pulled drive2, replaced with new drive, waited until sync completed, rebooted, then replaced drive1. It never atte...
Any hot-insert will wipe the drive, so if you don't want that to happen its vital that you power down the NAS before the insertion.
You can power down the NAS and try reinstalling your original 500GB drive 1 (with slot 2 empty), and then powering on. If I understand your sequence correctly that should boot. You can also try linux reader on a PC (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/). Linux reader will only read your original drive 1, it will not read drive 2.
BTW, its a good idea to label the drives by slot.
You can power down the NAS and try reinstalling your original 500GB drive 1 (with slot 2 empty), and then powering on. If I understand your sequence correctly that should boot. You can also try linux reader on a PC (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/). Linux reader will only read your original drive 1, it will not read drive 2.
BTW, its a good idea to label the drives by slot.
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