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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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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
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Jul 30, 2015
  bjussab wrote:
  
  Do you recommend after testing the drives, formatting the drives prior to putting it in the ReadyNAS will help?
  
  No. It's better not to format. You can remove the existing partitions (windows disk manager can do that), or zero the drives (vendor diagnostics like Seatools can do that).
  - bjussab
    Aspirant
    Jul 30, 2015
    Hi,
    
    Thanks all. It seems one of my drives was corrupt and was causing the issue.
    I have managed to get it working with one drive in and re-setup it up using the factory reinstall method.
    I have used windows disk manager and repartitioned it, hoping that when I reinsert it later on it will just Raid build up to how I want it.
    
    Many Thanks