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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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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.
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.
During disc test, I do see it appear on Raider.
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.
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