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Aspirant

Jul 30, 2015

ReadyNAS Duo RND2120 v2 (v1) - stuck on system starting up RAIDar

Hello everyone. Hope someone can share some ideas and help me. I bought a ReadyNAS Duo in 2010/2011. I used it for a couple of years before it was left to sit on a shelf unused. I recently st...

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mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 30, 2015

The factory reset process will take some minutes.

First there is the 10 minute countdown in which time you can abort the factory default before it does anything by powering down the system.

You can end the countdown by opening RAIDar, clicking setup, choosing the RAID mode and confirming your choice.

Once you've chosen the RAID mode or the 10 minute countdown expires the disks will be wiped, the OS installed and the volume created. This will take some minutes. If multiple disks are installed and you are using a redundant RAID level, a resync taking some hours will start too.

bjussab
Aspirant
Jul 30, 2015
Hi mdgm,

Thanks for your reply. I am aware the factory reset process takes sometime, Just can't do anything as the ReadyNAS Duo has been sitting on System Starting Up (as the status on RAIDar) for the last 9 hours, and there is not setup or any other button and does not let me do anything at all.

I did turn it off after an hour of sitting at System Starting Up, before turning it back on and leaving it for 9 hours (while I slept as it was nighttime in the UK).

Thank you
- vandermerwe
  Master
  Jul 30, 2015
  What disks do you have in the Duo?
  Can you redo a factory reset with a single, different, known good disk, in the unit.
  Test the 2 disks using a PC and vendor tools while they are out.
  - bjussab
    Aspirant
    Jul 30, 2015
    Hi vandermerwe,
    
    Thanks for your reply. I have 2 x Seagate 2TB drives, that I bought as a pack with the ReadyNAS.
    I do not have any other drives to test it with, but will try with one drive in. Do you recommend after testing the drives, formatting the drives prior to putting it in the ReadyNAS will help?
    
    thanks