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greyb0x
Sep 18, 2022Aspirant
ReadyNas Pro 6, suck at power on with "ReadyNAS" on front screen panel.
Hi everyone, I recently purchased a used ReadyNAS Pro 6, and performed a similar action to the linked post https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/ReadyNAS-Ultra-6-doesn-t-b...
greyb0x
Sep 19, 2022Aspirant
NOTE: I did this with all the disks (which has been working) removed.
Ok I was able to make some more progress, I found an older generic 16GB USB drive, and on linux set the partition table to dos/mbr, created a 3.2GB Primary partition formatted to the type W95 Fat32 and set the partition with boot flag.
Then on a windows machine, Using the older RAIDiator 4.2 USB Recovery Tool and the current ReadyNASOS-6.10.8-x86_64.zip. I extracted the newer ReadyNASOS-6.10.8-x86_64.zip contents and copied over just the ReadyNASOS-6.10.8-x86_64.img file to the folder where I extracted the RAIDiator 4.2 USB Recovery Tool and renamed the file from ReadyNASOS-6.10.8-x86_64.img to RAIDiator-x86-6.10.8.img, Then using the older usbrecovery.exe (opened as administrator) connected the USB drive (now with a dos/mbr partition table and a single 3.2GB primary boot enabled W95 Fat32 partition) selected the drive and selected the renamed RAIDiator-x86-6.10.8.img file, let that complete and ejected the usb drive.
I plugged the drive into one of the RadyNAS Pro 6 back USB ports (no power to the device yet), held the backup button on the front and powered up the device, the USB drive showed way more activity, the front panel did not change, it only showed "ReadyNAS", but the USB Drive activity light has many bursts of blinking, I just kept my finger held down on the front backup button and after 2-3minutes the hardware self powered down, I am assuming the restore finished.
I removed the USB Drive and pressed the power button on the front, the front panel gave more information and a progress indicator under the ReadyNAS text, there were some non ascii characters and I could make out some text that said safe mode. I double "clicked" (quickly double pressed) the power button and the device powered down.
I added the configured drives back into the hardware and powered it up. It booted!!!
My only issue now is that I think I wiped my VPD values for the devices serial & model number 😞 if someone could please help me get that back that would be amazing, I can provide a picture of the SN on the device etc.
StephenB
Sep 19, 2022Guru - Experienced User
greyb0x wrote:
My only issue now is that I think I wiped my VPD values for the devices serial & model number 😞 if someone could please help me get that back that would be amazing, I can provide a picture of the SN on the device etc.
Tagging the mods ( Mark_V and JeraldM ) to call their attention to your request
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