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Craigatitus2
Nov 22, 2015Aspirant
NV+ V2 stuck at booting
Hello I have been had my NV+ V2 for a few years now without any issue. It has the latest and last firmware (5.3.11 i think) and is populated with 2x WD 4Tb Red and 2x WD 3Tb Red internally and a...
- Dec 11, 2015
Ok so to follow up and hopefully finish this off...
I was able to hot swap the first drive and that kicked off the resync process which took about 20 hours to complete. Now everything is looking normal via frontview and the LCD screen etc. There is still the smartctl.org in the logs but the drives are reporting fine and everything looks normal.
So to just recap what happened and fixed it...
Upon a reboot the unit hung at "Booting..." on the LCD screen and subsequent reboots would not change that
What finally worked was removing a disk from the unit, powering it on, getting stuck at the same booting message and powering it off.Then reinserted the disk and the unit would boot properly after that but with an unprotected volume
Hot swapping the drive started the resync process and now things appear normal.
Hopefully things stay this way :)
Thanks to all who posted and helped me out.
Craig.
JennC
Nov 24, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello Craigatitus2,
Welcome to the community!
Please try Skip Volume check from the boot menu and see if that will boot the NAS to normal.
Regards,
- Craigatitus2Nov 24, 2015Aspirant
Thank you for responding. I will try that after i complete the backup of all the data and report back.
Thanks
Craig.
- Craigatitus2Nov 27, 2015Aspirant
Hi JennC
I tried the Skip Volume Check from the boot menu but the same thing happens. It gets stuck on saying Booting... with network drives actually being available and Transmission being up but not Sabnzb. The frontview software just says Device is Offline.
Are there any other options to try to get this back up and running?
Thanks
Craig.
- JennCNov 27, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello Craigatitus2,
Usually Skipping Volume check will let you in so you can get to be able to access the shares and back up the files and the dashboard/admin page to download all the logs to see if all disks are fine.
I guess you need to contact support center for this case, they will require a per incident support service contract.
Regards,
- Craigatitus2Nov 27, 2015Aspirant
Hi JennC
Thanks again for responding. I can currently access all the shares and can access the logs via the SSH connection. I just need some directon on what logs are important and then i can provide them.
If i do a memory test, disk test, or an OS reinstall from the boot menu, will this delete any data or remove the current volume on the disks?
Since Sabnzb won't start, it makes me think its something to do with that. Is there a way to uninstall this from the SSH connection and have it removed from startup? Or will doing an OS reinstall accomplish this?
Thanks
Craig.
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