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Jebross
Jan 06, 2016Aspirant
NV+ vers1, not booting, LED 1&3, cannot access boot menu #26278806
Current firmware was 4.1.14 and the device was working without a hiccup until one day when I got a new UPS and decided to hook them up via USB. Nothing was recognized upon plugging in the UPS so I s...
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 06, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
The boot menu does not need to be working to run USB Boot Recovery: Unofficial ReadyNAS USB Recovery Guide for Sparc-based Systems
Jebross
Jan 06, 2016Aspirant
Thanks for the quick reply. The instructions in the unofficial guide link provided (thank you, btw, the links provided on the Net Gear support pages are all dead links) match what I was trying to do, holding down the power button when starting the NAS. I did not get the hard drive LEDs blinking at 5 second intervals - all I got was a steady drive 1 and 3 LED.
I am not sure how else to trigger the USB boot restore....
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