Hello,I have a ReadyNAS NV that had been performing well for several years using 1.5 TB drives. I decided to give it a bit more room and expand to 2.0 TB drives. The first swap went well, the 2nd one, the ReadyNAS kept saying that the disk was dead or not big enough. After a number of reboots and attempts to get another 2.0 TB drive to come up (trying 2 different drives, even one I had formatted in an ext case connected to the ReadyNAS so I knew it was 'good'), I gave up and inserted the original drive. It was not seeing the drive, so I rebooted the ReadyNAS, and when it came up, it say 'Corrupt Root'.So now I have a ReadyNAS with 1 2.0 TB drive (a WD20EARX that I bought because it was listed on the HW list) and 3 1.5 TB Seagate 7200.11 drives.Next steps to get up and running as fast as possible?Thanks

oh, it was running 4.1.6 last it was able to boot.

Hi Conner, Out of curiosity, had you updated to firmware 4.1.10 and is your ReadyNAS an NV+?

4.1.6 and it's a NV, not an NV+

Do you have a backup? If so, one approach is to rebuild everything.4.1.7 was the first firmware to have support for 4K sector alignment - if you want to use 2 TB drives you'd want to do a factory reset with the those drives in place anyway in order to get the best performance.Delete the partitions on the disks you want to use (in a PC). Then insert one drive, upgrade the firmware. Delete the partition again, install all the drives you want (NAS powered down) and then start it up. This should give you a totally clean install.

the data is backed up enough. I was going to do the 4.1.10 update and whatnot after I was sure everything was going to work.I'm a bit confused on the order of things here. First, make sure all the partitions are deleted on the 4 drives I want to use. I do this in a PC, correct?Second, insert one drive, update to 4.1.7 (or higher) and do a factory reset? What are the steps to do this?Then wipe the partition off that drive, power down the ReadyNAS, insert 4 drives, and it should be ready to go?I'm guessing at some point the ReadyNAS is going to lose the settings I had on it (IP, shares, rights, etc)? What is the default login/password and how do I go about connecting to it?Thanks

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Conner
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2012
oh, it was running 4.1.6 last it was able to boot.
musicfreak
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2012
Hi Conner,

Out of curiosity, had you updated to firmware 4.1.10 and is your ReadyNAS an NV+?
Conner
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2012
4.1.6 and it's a NV, not an NV+
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 17, 2012
Do you have a backup? If so, one approach is to rebuild everything.

4.1.7 was the first firmware to have support for 4K sector alignment - if you want to use 2 TB drives you'd want to do a factory reset with the those drives in place anyway in order to get the best performance.

Delete the partitions on the disks you want to use (in a PC). Then insert one drive, upgrade the firmware. Delete the partition again, install all the drives you want (NAS powered down) and then start it up. This should give you a totally clean install.
Conner
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2012
the data is backed up enough. I was going to do the 4.1.10 update and whatnot after I was sure everything was going to work.

I'm a bit confused on the order of things here.

First, make sure all the partitions are deleted on the 4 drives I want to use. I do this in a PC, correct?

Second, insert one drive, update to 4.1.7 (or higher) and do a factory reset? What are the steps to do this?

Then wipe the partition off that drive, power down the ReadyNAS, insert 4 drives, and it should be ready to go?

I'm guessing at some point the ReadyNAS is going to lose the settings I had on it (IP, shares, rights, etc)? What is the default login/password and how do I go about connecting to it?

Thanks
Skywarp
Tutor
Oct 17, 2012
Easiest (quickest) way is if you have a backup of your data:

1. Update firmware, reboot
2. Save config of your ReadyNAS
3. power down
4. put all new drives in ReadyNAS
5. Factory Default with all the new drives in place: http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how ... v_nv_x6600, you will loose all data on the NAS if you do this
6. Reconnect, using RAIDar: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20684, default user/pass: admin/netgear1
7. Restore config
8. Put data back

the save/restore config part is optional if you don't have that many settings, just reconfigure by hand.
Conner
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2012
how do I go about steps 1 and 2, I can't seem to connect to the ReadyNAS currently. Should I have the corrupt root set of drives in while doing this?

thanks
Skywarp
Tutor
Oct 17, 2012
If you do not need the data or config:
Just do a factory default on the NAS first with one of the old drives or a spare one and then update.

So you would go steps 5, 6, 1, 3 with spare drive and then from 4 onwards with the new drives
Conner
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2012
the NV predates the netgear purchase, did they update the default password at some point?

Thanks
musicfreak
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2012
My documentation reads: "The default password has been changed from 'infrant1' to 'netgear1' "- circa 2008