Raidar has constant blue light and cannot access setup

my ip address shows 192.168.0.3, default gateway shows 192.168.01, this is from CMD ipconfig,

my readynas only shows up on raidar when disk is out, and it shows 192.168.05. does any of this help,

It sounds to me that the problem is in your hard drive. As mdgm says, you need to test it in a PC with vendor tools.

What drive are you using? Do you have access to a desktop PC? Or alternatively, do you have a USB enclosure or SATA/USB adapter you can use to connect the laptop to the drive?

Do you know if I can use the usb from readynas straight Into the laptop. I feel it's the hard drive too.
If I can plug it in with a male to make USB. Can I open frontview?

So am I looking to see if the hard drive works. I've never used vendor tools

The drive I am using is a 2tb western

dbzisme wrote:
Do you know if I can use the usb from readynas straight Into the laptop.

No. http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/hardware/can_i_attach_the_readynas_to_a_usb_port_on_the_pc

dbzisme wrote:
I feel it's the hard drive too.

Yes. That's the first thing I'd check.

dbzisme wrote:
So am I looking to see if the hard drive works. I've never used vendor tools

Best to connect to an internal SATA port in a PC. There are reports of mixed success in trying to use vendor tools with USB or eSATA.

What model 2TB WD? e.g. WD20EARS-00S8B1

mdgm wrote:
Best to connect to an internal SATA port in a PC. There are reports of mixed success in trying to use vendor tools with USB or eSATA.

Well, since he is using a laptop there is no internal SATA port for him to use. Which is why I asked him if he had a USB/SATA adapter or enclosure (or access to a desktop PC).

Quick thing to mention. I do have a pc but I did try plug in the wd hard drive into
Spare Sata and it has wiped my pc. I now cannot start my pc? That's another topic

The hard drive is a wd20ears if that helps

Well it should go without saying that you should have a good backup particularly before putting a possibly failing/dead disk in a production system. So you didn't carefully disconnect the PC's drive before putting the WD Hard Drive in? I would have and then used the Ultimate Boot CD. Then powered down and put the PC hard drive back in.

Have you run WDIDLE3 on that disk? I guess probably not. Disk probably has a very high Load Cycle Count.

Yes I have definatly learn my lesson. I didn't know it could do that.
I wonder how the hard drive can just burn out. Shall I buy a hard drive and start fresh?