Replacing Disc 1

StephenB wrote:

I don't know of any way to suppress the lights and messages. Support might be able to to help though. What you actually want is to finesse the system so that it treats the volume as jbod (as it was before). You could try switching to flexraid. I don't think that will help,but am not sure. That's not a downgrade btw, just a different approach to managing the raid volumes. You might need to do a factory reset and rebuild the NAS. You'd need to reload your data from a backup to do that. For future reference, it would have been better in this case to clone the old disk drive, and insert the clone with the NAS powered down.

I meant downgrade as in Netgear touts X-RAID as being one of its benefits compared to other NAS devices. I switched to Flex-RAID and it was still reported as Degraded. It switched instantly... switched back to X-RAID and nothing changed.

Yeah - normally I would copy the data to another drive and re-install. I thought this way would be an easier path and it was outside of the flashing light show. I have cloned quite a few Windows drives and yes that would be been the best way and probably the fastest.

I couldn't just re-install the OS without wiping the data from the drive?