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RN104 connection to PC
I have four hard drives that are listed as compatible. All are 2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB and none of them work. It keeps giving me an error that the disks are dirty and previously used, requiring a format. ...
NAS uses a LINUX internal File System & PC uses NTFS as its file System .
In case your intention is the data in the drive to be read by NAS as it is & should not format the content , You should not insert the drives in to your NAS SATA porst but you will have to connect the SATA drive on a SATA to USB converter casing & connect to the NAS USB 3.0 / 2.0 port . It will show up as a SMB Share which you can access and copy .
BTW to do the above steps , NAS needs atleast one Blank Drive to Load its OS and boot . If a used disk is inserted , NAS will show up as Dirty Disk (Used Disk) . You will have to Manually format the same using Raidar . PLS NOTE , ALL DATA WILL BE ERASED AND CANNOT BE RECOVERED . Find a Blank disk or disk which you can fully format to boot up the NAS .
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