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USB Recovery option for Corrupted Firmware?
Hello. I have a Readynas Pro however I have upgraded the software to version 6.10.1 which I think is an entirely newer firmware then how this unit ships. Is this unit still able to do the U...
miogpsrocks wrote:
Drives appear to be good from a quick scan however machine is not working correctly. Folders are unstable and being unavailable. Currently I can't get anything to show up. No folders, no IP address on Raidar, no web admin,etc..
It's not obvious to me that a USB recovery is the next step, and it's not the easiest thing to do.
Try powering down, and removing all the disks (labeling by slot). Then power up and see if you get a no-disks status on the LCD, and also in RAIDar.
If you have a scratch (spare) disk, then try putting just that disk into the NAS and try doing a fresh factory install. If that works, then you don't need to risk doing a USB recovery - your flash is fine.
StephenB wrote:
miogpsrocks wrote:
Drives appear to be good from a quick scan however machine is not working correctly. Folders are unstable and being unavailable. Currently I can't get anything to show up. No folders, no IP address on Raidar, no web admin,etc..
It's not obvious to me that a USB recovery is the next step, and it's not the easiest thing to do.
Try powering down, and removing all the disks (labeling by slot). Then power up and see if you get a no-disks status on the LCD, and also in RAIDar.
If you have a scratch (spare) disk, then try putting just that disk into the NAS and try doing a fresh factory install. If that works, then you don't need to risk doing a USB recovery - your flash is fine.
The LCD on this unit has not worked for years. In fact, I'm not sure I ever remembered it working. So unfortunately, I can't see if there is a no disk status on the LCD. I do have RAIDar installed so I might be able to tell on that.
When you say a scratch(space) disk, do you just mean any random SATA hard drive? If so, then yes, I do have those laying arond. If you mean if I originally conifgured the array with a space drive inside the machine, then I don't have that.
However here is my question.
If I do remove all the hard drives then turn on the unit or place a blank drive inside the unit and get it to turn on. Then when I place my 6 normal drives inside, will the until then proceede to format those drives as a brand new install wiping all my data?
Just so you know, I am dealing with a lot of data on the drives I would like to perserve so if any of these option will delete that data, please let me know and I will try one of the RAID recovery software first. I do have a spare raid system with more than enough space for the recovered files.
Thanks.
miogpsrocks wrote:
When you say a scratch(space) disk, do you just mean any random SATA hard drive? If so, then yes, I do have those laying arond. If you mean if I originally conifgured the array with a space drive inside the machine, then I don't have that.
I mean a random SATA drive you have lying around. Since you don't have a working LCD, then you should zero it before putting it into the NAS. Then the NAS will automatically do a factory install.
A small drive is best for this test. It just needs to work.
miogpsrocks wrote:
If I do remove all the hard drives then turn on the unit or place a blank drive inside the unit and get it to turn on. Then when I place my 6 normal drives inside, will the until then proceede to format those drives as a brand new install wiping all my data?
The goal is to figure out if your problem is something going on with the chassis, or if it is something going with the disks (including the OS partition that is on the disks).
After you find out if the NAS is stable or not with the test disk, you can power it down and reinstall the original disks in their original slots. No data will be destroyed by the test, and the NAS configuration is stored on the drives - not the flash memory in the chassis.
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