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ReadyNAS Pro 6 "Err: could not properly extract"
I replaced a faulty power supply in my ReadyNAS Pro 6 and when I brought it back up it was syncing disks. Stupidly I decided I would update the firmware from 6.10.4 to the 6.10.5 the admin page told ...
Yes, yoiur RAID must sync even if the drives are empty. It would have been better if you left the unit on, as it may still be syncing.
No, it is not unusual; that an OS6 NAS did not wait for you to set it up. Rather than wait for you too choose XRAID or FlexRAID, OS6 goes on as XRAID because you can change on the fly. If you need FlexRAID, you can switch, destroy the not-yet-sync'ed volume, and create a new one.
I figured it out. I had read that you could not use the latest (at the time) recovery utility for an older unit which had been upgraded to OS6, but the postings on this were quite old (2017). I had assumed that the recent version could be used... But no.
I grabbed the older USB recovery utility and used it along with the latest OS6 firmware renamed as RAIDiator-x86-something and wrote the USB with that.
Now it works again. I then did a factory reset successfully. The only frustrating thing was I had forgotten the original admin password and looking for it for the ReadyNAS Pro indicated it was "netgear". All well and good, but the OS6 default password is "password". Er, yeah...
Robert
I grabbed the older USB recovery utility and used it along with the latest OS6 firmware renamed as RAIDiator-x86-something and wrote the USB with that.
Now it works again. I then did a factory reset successfully. The only frustrating thing was I had forgotten the original admin password and looking for it for the ReadyNAS Pro indicated it was "netgear". All well and good, but the OS6 default password is "password". Er, yeah...
Robert
Glad you figured it out. Yes, you must use the old OS4.2 style USB recovery for a legacy system updated to OS 6 because,m while the primary OS has been updated, the rest of the boot system is still the same, and differs from native OS6 NAS. USB recovery is intended to fix both, so you need the "hybrid" recovery system of a 4.2 style USB with a 6.x OS file.
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