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ReadyNAS NV+ HD upgrade failed after 4th drive
I started upgrading four 500GB HD to four 1TB HD last Monday. Followed the instruction provided by many existing topic - swap one HD at a time and wait until it is fully sync and proceed with next HD...
kuoman wrote:
- do a fully backup (will take several hours, I have about 400GB of data)
- run western digital test tool on ALL 4 hard drive
- reformat the HD on PC (????)
- put all drives back in NV+ and setup as new device
Don't reformat the drives using the PC, but rather if anything delete the partitions on the disks. You'd probably find doing a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) would be enough.
When you set it up again as a new device make sure the unit is running 4.1.7 or later (it should be running 4.1.8 after a factory default if the USB Boot Recovery was successful). If not, update the firmware and do another factory default.
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