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ReadyNAS Pro Stuck at Booting…
I’m trying to resurrect my ReadyNAS Pro and it’s stuck at Booting…
It will complete the FS checks, but can’t get past Booting….
I’ve attempted an OS Reinstall and a USB Recovery, but the USB Recovery never fully completed and I’m thinking there is something wrong with the img. I have also run a memory test which passed.
Currently it’s running through a disc check which should complete this evening. I have not attempted hooking up a VGA monitor, nor have I jumped into Tech Support menu.
I never upgraded to OS6, so it’s on Raider 4.something. My USB Recovery was the latest 4.23.
This box last ran several years ago and the only problem I was aware of is that disc #5 appears dead, so it has been removed and I am attempting to bring it up on the remaining five drives 1234 6. Hopefully having an open bay isn’t the issue, but I don’t want to change anything out of uncertainty.
I hoping someone here would be able to help me through this.
Thanks!
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Additionally, if I remove all discs, it recognizes that and shows an error.
I’ll add more replies as I read replies to similar problems.
During disc test, I do see it appear on Raider.
My USB Recovery was the latest 4.23.
Latest would be 4.2.31.
Likely USB recovery was not needed.
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Thanks for the reply.
Progress has been made. I took a single good disc and did a Factory Default on it and ran it through all six slots. 100% pass.
I then reinstalled the 5 original discs, in their original positions, and inserted the newly formatted disc in bay #5, it then detected a bad #6 drive. Evidently, with bay #5 empty and a bad #6, the boot sequence failed.
Unfortunately, 2 bad discs looks to equate to a total loss of everything. Is there anything that I’m missing to be able to retrieve anything off of the 4 good drives? If it makes any difference, the disc sizes are 4T, 1.5T, 1.5T, 1.5T, 0.5T and 0.5T. It was both 500G discs that died. Sure wish I had the money back then to keep all discs the same.
Unfortunately, 2 bad discs looks to equate to a total loss of everything. Is there anything that I’m missing to be able to retrieve anything off of the 4 good drives?
RAID-5 only has single redundancy, so getting anything back would be challenging.
You could try RAID recovery software that supports ext. You'd need a way to connect all the working disks to a PC. Imaging them to one larger disk is one option.
Do the two 512MB drives work at all? If they will work long enough to clone them to new drives or make an image file from them, then there is a better chance of recovering a lot of the files.
Not in the NAS, but it would be worth a shot to try them in an external enclosure.
Thanks for the idea.
Not sure this helps, but I had a similar situation many years ago. I apologize if my recollection of some of the details are a bit fuzzy.
My ReadyNAS (RAIDiator 4. something or other I suspect) declared a drive unusable due to unrecoverable read errors. Many many sectors were lost.
While hot swapping a replacement, another drive got jiggled sufficiently that it lost communication and the system said the RAID was gone. For reasons I can't recall, reinserting the good but disconnected drive did not appease the ReadyNAS and the RAID remained unusable.
The failing drive could not be copied due to unrecoverable read errors. As a hail Mary, I cloned the drive using the (somewhat infamous) Linux dd command. The trick was you can tell dd how many retry attempts to make when a sector can't be read. I told it to retry as many as 1000 time and if that failed, to write zeros into the definitively lost sector.
Cloning with dd this way recovered most, but not all of the lost sectors. When it finished cloning, I prayed a little, installed the clone drive, and booted the ReadyNAS. Miraculously this worked.
After that, I always used RAID6.
After that, I always used RAID6.
Better to have a backup strategy, as no RAID mode is enough to keep your data safe.
As a hail Mary, I cloned the drive using the (somewhat infamous) Linux dd command.
Cloning the drive can help (and often is recommended before trying to recover data, since the recovery process can stress the a failing drive more than cloning it).
It’s a hard lesson to learn and hopefully I’ll be able to clone my way out of my problem this time, but going forward, cold offsite backups will be used.
I haven’t attempted a Clonezilla clone yet, but I’ll try that and do. If neither of those work, Micro Center has their first level of data recovery at $149 and I think that would be worth a shot.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Cloning unsuccessful. Clonezilla doesn’t work on RAID discs.
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