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readynas 600 won't boot slow flashing blue light
I connected to the NAS both through the web interface to check the backup jobs. They seem to have been failing for several months with unknown error. I could see the files via CIFS. As I looked th...
I already referred to the LED patterns when testing the memory, which resulted in 4 green lights after a while. Under normal boot the ultimate result is no disk lights on, and a slow flashing blue power light.
I certainly know not to format the disks in windows, my question was is it safe to merely connect the disks to a machine running windows to run the manufacturer diagnostics under windows. As I mentioned, merely connecting a tivo disk to a windows machine will trash the disk. No formatting required. I just want to make sure that isn't the case with readynas disks. Windows apparently loves to overwrite the master boot record when a disk is connected. I want to verify that isn't a problem with the readynas disks.
Thanks.
GRS1 wrote:
my question was is it safe to merely connect the disks to a machine running windows to run the manufacturer diagnostics under windows.
Yes. Windows won't recognize the format, so it will not attempt to mount them. You will see them show up in the windows disk manager, and the vendor diagnostic should detect them.
As long as you don't format or modify partitions you will be ok.
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