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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.
I started from drive 4 and work my way toward drive 1. After drive 2, I did the same, pull out drive 1, NV+ shows drive failed, put in new drive, NV+ shows drive added. then I went to sleep.
Next morning (about 7 hours later) the system is OFF (I never had this with previous 3 HD), so I power it back on. I got the following message:
Booting....
Checking FS: 1%
From RAIDar, it was showing resyncing 1% 2 hours and 13minutes, so I went out and got home around 4pm (7 hours later), no progress was made, still at 1%. I did several power cycle (I know I shouldn't :( but panic)
I pulled out drive 1 and ran Western Digital test (both quick and extended tests), but result PASSED.
Then I put drive 1 back in the NV+ and I still got the same message, so I tried upgrade firmware to 4.1.8 using USB and afterward I am still seeing 1% from the front LED on NV+
I am now backing up all the content to my local PC and thinking maybe I should wipe all four HDs and start from new.
I would like some suggestion/comment for the following:
- 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
Any comments/suggestions are appreciated.
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.
I started from drive 4 and work my way toward drive 1. After drive 2, I did the same, pull out drive 1, NV+ shows drive failed, put in new drive, NV+ shows drive added. then I went to sleep.
Next morning (about 7 hours later) the system is OFF (I never had this with previous 3 HD), so I power it back on. I got the following message:
Booting....
Checking FS: 1%
From RAIDar, it was showing resyncing 1% 2 hours and 13minutes, so I went out and got home around 4pm (7 hours later), no progress was made, still at 1%. I did several power cycle (I know I shouldn't :( but panic)
I pulled out drive 1 and ran Western Digital test (both quick and extended tests), but result PASSED.
Then I put drive 1 back in the NV+ and I still got the same message, so I tried upgrade firmware to 4.1.8 using USB and afterward I am still seeing 1% from the front LED on NV+
I am now backing up all the content to my local PC and thinking maybe I should wipe all four HDs and start from new.
I would like some suggestion/comment for the following:
- 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
Any comments/suggestions are appreciated.
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- I forgot to add, the new HD is
Western Digital RE4 WD1003FBYX 1TB, it is on the HCL 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.- Thank you mdgm
As of now, only drive 2-4 are installed, I am still copying all the data (5 hours and 43minutes to go), I guess I will have to do the WD testing tool tomorrow on all the new HD. Will post in a day or two with progress.
Just wondering, what could be possible cause for this? Maybe I should wait longer for drive 1 to resync? Like over 24 hours? - Open a support case and send them the logs zip file when requested.
- Maybe one of your WD disk 2,3,4 has error, so the resync proecess is hang.
Did you test the WD disk 2,3,4? - I am still trying to copy as much data off drive 2 ~ 4. I will start test all HD using WD tools and if afterward I am still having issue, I will open a ticket. Hopefully I won't have to go that route :)
- By the way. Western Digital Diag Tool has the following test
- quick test
- extended test
- write zeros
I will do extended test but should I perform write zeros? - Write zeroes would wipe the disk overwriting it with zeroes. If your data is not backed up definitely don't do that.
mdgm wrote: Write zeroes would wipe the disk overwriting it with zeroes. If your data is not backed up definitely don't do that.
Thank you. I have backup as much data as I need, going to start WD extended test. I was searching on the forum but didn't find anything that tell me how to reset all my HD to new but keep all my network setting and user setting (ie. share profiles). Is there such a thing or I have to do factory reset and start from beginning?- You can backup the configuration to a PC from Frontview, and then restore it after the factory reset. You do need to be careful to re-install any add-ons you use before you restore the config file.
You do this from System / Config Backup
Of course you still need to restore the files in the shares from backups.
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