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ReadyNAS Duo cannot access admin page or factory reset
I know this is quite an old system (purchased 2011) - but the optimist in me says that means everything has been fixed more than once right?
After moving house it has took me a while to ge this unpacked and attached to the network. It does not have a UPS attached and I think must have suffered a power outage, as I now cannot access the admin page. I can still see the unit on RAIDar and the disks are showing heathly. I can still browse to the shares, alhough most of the data has gone.
For this model, I think there are only two boot modes - hold reset for 10s - OS Relaod; hold for 30s - factory default. I have tried both multiple times (with both disk lights flashing as they are supposed to), but without success. The factory default is not removing the shares or resetting admin password (neither original PW or admin & admin works).
Accessing through MS Edge or Internet Explorer, on a Win 10 machine.
Any other ideas or suggestions?
If the disks are zeroed, then it had to do a factory install. The NAS boots from the disks. There was no need for boot-menu options, all you really needed to do is power up again.
The default admin password for the NAS should be "netgear1". Is that what you are using?
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The boot modes are on page 15-16 here: http://www.readynas.com/download/documentation/HM/Duov1_NV+v1_HW_en_30Nov11.pdf
One option is to connect the disks to a PC and test them with vendor diags (seatools, WDC lifeguard...) Include the test that zeros the disks. Assuming they pass, you can then insert them back into the duo and boot it up - it should do a factory install, since there disks will be unformatted.
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