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Munber54
Feb 08, 2014Aspirant
replacing failed hard drive
I have 2 readynas pro, each with 6 wd red 3 tb drives. Last night I backed up my first readynas to the second one. I only use the second readynas to back up the first one and it is rarely used, like p...
Munber54
Feb 09, 2014Aspirant
Hi. Just an update. I put the drive in an external usb enclosure and connected the drive to my computer but it didn't show up in windows explorer so I checked the disk management area and I saw the drive listed there. It was divided up into 3 partitions which were labeled as healthy but disk management did not have any volume label associated with the partitions. I deleted the partitions in windows 7 disk management, which when doing so, I saw a message saying the partitions were not created by windows. Using disk management I formated the drive as one partition and ran windows checkdisk on it. It said the drive was ok so I downloaded the western digital program WinDlg.exe and ran a quick test on the hard drive and it passed. I guess I will put the drive aside for now and use WinDlg.exe to run an extended test on the drive overnight but I suspect the drive is ok. Perhaps there was some glitch with the ReadyNas unit. Maybe if I had shut down the ReadyNas without removing the second drive, then turned it back on again, it would have recognized the drive as ok, but at the time I didn't want to try anything on my own since I wanted to make sure I didn't make things worse. Anyway, I guess I won't know for sure if the drive is ok until I run the extended test on it. Thanks.
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