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Problem with Duo boot - Blinking light
Recently, I've been having a problem getting my ReadyNAS Duo to boot up. It started when the Duo became unresponsive, so I had to pull the plug. This has happened a few times before, but except fo...
had a similar issue recently...
After doing a lot of activity (moving folders, renaming, rescanning DLNA folders) on the readyduo (2bay SPARC ver.) it became unresponsive, so I pulled the plug. On reboot the blue light would pulsate / blink forever, sometimes the hdd lights would come on and stay on (on other reboots they wouldn't)... in all cases frontview or my shares wouldn't appear. Left it for 24 hours to let it sort itself out but it was still 'broken' when i checked on it the next day.
Holding the power button for certain periods, I tried skipping the diskcheck, installing from usb...but still no success. After trying to mount the disks in the VMware (see forums) with no success, I managed to access and back up the data using R studio's RTOOLs (which was simple enough but it didn't find all the files ).
Before doing a complete factory reset, having backed up most of the data, i decided to try an OS reinstall first (holding the reset button pinhole at the back of the duo for 5 seconds until the hdd Leds light up)...and sure enough after a few reboots it was back up and running - with no data loss (it did however reset the admin password to "netgear1"). Glad i didn't jump to the factory default option (as this destroys your data).
So now i'm back up and running with all data available.
Naturally i'm now backing up everything fully and adjusting my backup processes to ensure this won't be such a big impact next time.
Hope that's of some help.
Dek
After doing a lot of activity (moving folders, renaming, rescanning DLNA folders) on the readyduo (2bay SPARC ver.) it became unresponsive, so I pulled the plug. On reboot the blue light would pulsate / blink forever, sometimes the hdd lights would come on and stay on (on other reboots they wouldn't)... in all cases frontview or my shares wouldn't appear. Left it for 24 hours to let it sort itself out but it was still 'broken' when i checked on it the next day.
Holding the power button for certain periods, I tried skipping the diskcheck, installing from usb...but still no success. After trying to mount the disks in the VMware (see forums) with no success, I managed to access and back up the data using R studio's RTOOLs (which was simple enough but it didn't find all the files ).
Before doing a complete factory reset, having backed up most of the data, i decided to try an OS reinstall first (holding the reset button pinhole at the back of the duo for 5 seconds until the hdd Leds light up)...and sure enough after a few reboots it was back up and running - with no data loss (it did however reset the admin password to "netgear1"). Glad i didn't jump to the factory default option (as this destroys your data).
So now i'm back up and running with all data available.
Naturally i'm now backing up everything fully and adjusting my backup processes to ensure this won't be such a big impact next time.
Hope that's of some help.
Dek
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