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pgtips
Oct 08, 2018Aspirant
RND2000 flashing
Hi,
I've got an old readynas which I have been happy with. 2 days ago I had a powercut.
Now the NAS will not boot, it just flashes / blinks. Theres LEDs = blue Power, yellow ACT, green disk 1 and...
- Oct 08, 2018
Marc_V is correct, the duo can boot with only disk 2 installed.
If you are lucky, only the OS partition on disk 1 is damaged, and the data is ok. I suggest connecting disk 1 to a Windows PC (using USB or SATA), and then see if R-linux for Windows can access the data. https://www.r-studio.com/free-linux-recovery/ Note that will only work with XRAID. If you are using RAID-0, you'd need the full R-Studio package. You can download the full version for free, but you'd need to purchase before you can extract any data.
I also suggest testing them in a Windows PC with vendor tools (Seatools for Seagate, Lifeguard for Western Digital).
Power down the NAS before you remove the disks, and label them by slot as you remove them. Don't format them when you connect them to the PC, as that will destroy any data. Windows won't recognize the file system, but the tools listed above will detect healthy disks, and can access them directly.
Marc_V
Oct 08, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi pgtips
Have you checked RAIDar on the status of your NAS?
What RAID configuration is on your NAS? If it's RAID 1 it should still boot up fine. If it's RAID 0 however it might not get the NAS recover since it does not have any protection for failure.
You can install RAIDar and check what is the status of the NAS once detected. With the 3 slow blinks you mentioned seems to me that you are having a full OS/Data volume or corrupt root. Try to check on the logs as well and get diagnostics.log.
Regards
pgtips
Oct 08, 2018Aspirant
Hi,
sorry forgot to mention that Raidar doesn't see the NAS. I've only got the blinking lights to work from
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