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Removed two working mirrored drives. Can I put them back and get data back?
I had two 1TB hard drives in mirrored configuration on the Readynas 312. I replaced these drives with two 2TB drives in mirrored configuration. I had a good backup as of that morning (which was don...
You should be able to
- power down the NAS,
- remove the new disks (labeling by slot)
- insert one of the old disk drives
- boot it up
The operating system and the settings are on the drives. I suggest inserting one old disk only, because they might be out of sync (depending on how you did the upgrade).
When done,
- power down the NAS
- remove the old disk(s)
- replace the new drives in the appropriate slotes
- boot it up.
You should be able to
- power down the NAS,
- remove the new disks (labeling by slot)
- insert one of the old disk drives
- boot it up
The operating system and the settings are on the drives. I suggest inserting one old disk only, because they might be out of sync (depending on how you did the upgrade).
When done,
- power down the NAS
- remove the old disk(s)
- replace the new drives in the appropriate slotes
- boot it up.
It worked. I was very afraid I was not going to get the information back from the previous drive. It seems the OS is loaded into the hard drive as opposed to the machine loading from an eeprom like firmware. Thank you guys for your help, you offered me better support than their phone tech support (They were clueless).
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