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Readynas freezes on start up after constantly crashing
Finding this extremely frustrating. After various problems last year that appeared to be fixed by a OS reinstall, my NAS has been crashing more and more frequently over the last couple of days. I have tried to do a reinstall again and it won't work - goes straight to booting and then freezes there. Only had this NAS for a bit over a year and not very impressed given the many many problems it has been beset by. Once it freezes in booting only unplugging it will solve the issue. Help please...
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I can occasionally get it to boot menu and so that it says OS reinstall but then the NAS won't actually start the reinstall when I press the power button. If I press the reset again it boots and I'm back to it crashing. I am not at all technical but this system isnt great surely...?!
What firmware are you running? Have you disabled the antivirus service?
I'm not sure what firmware it is as I can't get it working long enough to check - I updated it at the end of last year. And sorry, I was trying the USB recovery tool rather than OS reinstall, my mistake, either way it just goes back to freezing whilst booting.
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