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Michgan
Dec 29, 2025Aspirant
RND6000 Remove inactive volumes Disk 1,2,3,4,6
Hello,
I am requesting your assistance in my attempt to recover my data following a failure of one of my hard drives (slot 5) on my RNDP-6000 running under OS6.
1°) I replaced my defective slot5 hard drive (4 to) with a smaller one (3 to) so as not to lose any data.
2°) The reconstruction seemed to have worked because I still had access to all the data, but the drives remained greyed out.
3°) I replaced the drive again with an other 4 to hard drive.
4°) The NAS displays two volumes:
- a 13 TB volume for drives 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6,
- a 1 TB volume on drive 6.
The NAS requests the deletion of the volumes from inactive hard disks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 (13 to volume) and disk 6 (1 to volume).
5°) I deleted the 1 to partition from disk 6, thinking that it was causing problems with the volume reconstruction, but this did not change anything.
Is there a solution that will allow me to recover my original volume and start rebuilding without losing my data?
I found this article, which seems to be the solution to my problem, but I don't know enough about mdadm commands to adapt it to my problem.
ReadyNAS RN424 | Inactive Volume + RAID Issue | NETGEAR Communities
I hope one of you can help me. Thank you in advance for your help!
2 Replies
- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
Michgan wrote:
1°) I replaced my defective slot5 hard drive (4 to) with a smaller one (3 to) so as not to lose any data.
5°) I deleted the 1 to partition from disk 6
Both of these actions were mistakes, and as a result you might not be able to save your data.
Likely you will need data recovery - either
- getting a USB enclosure+purchasing recovery software that supports both linux RAID and BTRFS
- contracting with a company that does data recovery
Was the defective disk completely dead? Do you still have it (not erased or reformatted)?
- MichganAspirant
No, I don't think it was completely dead (the volume had gone to dead and errors were accumulating).
The disk was coming to the end of its warranty, so I sent it back quickly.
For recovery, do I need to connect all the RAID disks to USB?
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