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ReadyNas Duo V2 setup nightmare
Hi , my first attempt to set up a Netgear NAS box and quite possibly my last ,
Trying to set up a new duo V2 with one Samsung F1 750Gb hard drive. This works fine in a Synology and D-link Nas box and has no bad sectors - perfect working order.
On first installation attempt Raidar gave me corrupt root error. Then reading though the hardware manual I did a factory reset. This give me a bad disk error and the LED 1 just flashes blue.
I read on this forum that because I have used the drive in other NAS boxes that the partitions maybe confusing the Duo, so I deleted the partitions in windows and ran factory reset, same
bad disk error.
Is it an actual issue with the hard drive because its not on the supported list? I've read alot of negative reviews on the US Amazon page with people having set up issues.
Can anyone offer any suggestions before I sent it back for a different make... Thanks
Trying to set up a new duo V2 with one Samsung F1 750Gb hard drive. This works fine in a Synology and D-link Nas box and has no bad sectors - perfect working order.
On first installation attempt Raidar gave me corrupt root error. Then reading though the hardware manual I did a factory reset. This give me a bad disk error and the LED 1 just flashes blue.
I read on this forum that because I have used the drive in other NAS boxes that the partitions maybe confusing the Duo, so I deleted the partitions in windows and ran factory reset, same
bad disk error.
Is it an actual issue with the hard drive because its not on the supported list? I've read alot of negative reviews on the US Amazon page with people having set up issues.
Can anyone offer any suggestions before I sent it back for a different make... Thanks
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- You need to select remote: Windows/NAS (timestamp) like in the pic below.
- How do I get the Host number of my computer... ? Three evenings I've spent on this trying to just get the dam thing working and creating a backup. Worst NAS box I've ever had to set up.
- windows click start button and in the run box type cmd this will bring up a command prompt, then type ipconfig /all
- Have a look at my post here it could be of help to you setting up backups.
http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=62968&start=15#p356698 - Thanks HERBIEO, appreciate your help on this. I am having the same problem as other people now. All my test connections work fine, no errors reported. When I try to run a backup it runs for about two minutes and stops. No errors or log, just stops and had copied nothing.
- Result - After bricking my unit from the power schedule issue, I learnt that my device did not have the latest firmware - although it said it was fully up to date.
After manually updating the firmware , alot of my problems have gone.
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