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ReadyNAS 102 – Blue light blinking, no boot
My ReadyNAS 102 has been working with an issue for a few years. I tried to connect recently and it wouldn't let me. I tried to reboot and it wouldn't so I pulled the power. Now it won't boot up (blue...
Hello FreshIdentity,
Booting the NAS with no disks will really not boot up the NAS completely and will give you blinking power light. The OS/firmware, settings and data are stored to the disks.
Perhaps you want to check if RAIDar will detect your NAS with the disks in. By the way, when inserting the disks back to the NAS, please make sure you insert them back to their respective bays.
When RAIDar detects the NAS, it will show the current firmware, the current status and RAID level.
If the RAID level is XRAID (RAID1), try inserting just one disk to the NAS and see if it will boot up and let you access the files. If you get the same problem, try the other disk.
Welcome to the community!
Regards,
Okay, thanks. I've got my hands on a replacement drive. Once i've doen the factory reset can I then just reconnect the USB backup and select that as a source to restore from or do I need to manually copy overthing back over?
If you back up the data with a frontview backup job you should be able to reverse the source/destination in the backup job. Maybe capture those settings before you do the reset.
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