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DeanTierney's avatar
DeanTierney
Aspirant
Mar 29, 2016
Solved

ReadyNAS NV+ v2 - "no data volume" since upgrading disks

Hi all,

 

We have attempted to increase the storage on our NV+ v2 by replacing the four existing 1TB drives with 3TB drives (confirmed the new drives are compatible). The first 2 were replaced successfully so we went ahead and replaced the 3rd one 4 days ago and somewhere between then and yesterday morning the data volume has become unreachable.

 

The console was also not accessible (via the browser interface) so I needed to do a hard reset to bring it back up

I ran a disk scan from the boot menu which found errors on disk 4 (one of the original disks) and tried to swap it with a new HDD but the new disk was not being initialised (though the box displays a message on the LED confirming that a new disk has been added).

I tried an OS Install but it seemed to hang on "Installing addon". After restarting the box it looked as though the OS reinstall had completed (settings/password were set back to defaults etc)

It's a RAID5 config

 

Our users' support agreement expired a few years back so I'm hoping to get some more ideas from the community on what to try next.

 

Thanks very much in advance!

 

Dean

  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    Mar 30, 2016

    One of your disks has 45 ATA errors.

     

    The RAID array the data volume sits on isn't starting.

     

    This looks like a data recovery situation to me. You could contact support and enquire about the costs of purchasing data recovery.

     

    I notice that you had filled in the Contact Us form but not yet taken the steps to turn it into a case.

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    • StephenB's avatar
      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User

      Also, what firmware is running on the unit?

      • JennC's avatar
        JennC
        NETGEAR Employee Retired

        Hello deanTierney,

         

        Welcome to the community!

         

        You mentioned: The console was also not accessible (via the browser interface) so I needed to do a hard reset to bring it back up

         

        What do you mean by hard reset, how exactly did you do it?

         

        Do you have full backup of the data?

         

        Regards,

    • DeanTierney's avatar
      DeanTierney
      Aspirant

      Sorry, I forgot to mention in my original post that they don't have a backup of the data. 

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