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I-SH
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Apr 01, 2016
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RNDU2000 can not access disks after upgrade.

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    I-SH
    Apr 20, 2016

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    All the files were on drive 1, which I copied to a USB disk with Home NAS Recovery. Excellent customer care, they worked all Sunday to improve the application until it could read the RAID partition.

     

    The NAS wouldn’t start with disk 1 alone.

     

    DDrescue completed to clone disk 2 today, with almost no lost data. It was not much help though, as this drive doesn’t contain 2016 files.

     

    The NAS started with disk 2 alone, but insisted that the old disk 1 is present. Reinstalling the OS convinced the NAS that a new disk 1 is present, but “…Not redundant. A disk failure will render this volume dead”. I could access all my files, but have no redundancy. A reboot forced synchronizing (not finished).

     

    So now I am back at normal and yes, I have already ordered NAS backup (Livedrive).

     

    To summarize weeks of effort, here is what to do If BOTH drives are damaged and you don’t have current backup:

    • Clone both drives with DDRescue or ddrescue-gui (Linux utility). Note that it can take up to several weeks
    • Copy all files to a third disk from each RAID-disk separately, do it with Home NAS Recovery, ReclaiMe or mount the drive on a Linux
    • Insert both disks back to the NAS and power up. You may need to reinstall the OS (boot menu, see manual) if it still doesn’t work
    • An additional reboot will sync the drives if they are not working as RAID

     

    Thank you all for your help. The next question: How do I stretch the cloned 2TB partitions to fit the new 3TB disks?

     

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