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Michgan's avatar
Michgan
Aspirant
Dec 29, 2025

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

  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - 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)?

     

     

    • Michgan's avatar
      Michgan
      Aspirant

      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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