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Stuck at "BOOTING CHECK FS: 0%"
I've had this ReadyNAS on my shelf, gathering dust for the past year, because I've gotten so frustrated with it, and I've tried like the dickens to work around this problem. Thing is, there are GB of photo and video backups that only exist on this drive, and I can't keep getting frustrated and losing hours like this.
It's been stuck at BOOTING FS: 0% forever. I leave it on for days. Nothing happens.
I remove the 4th disk. Nothing happens. I remove Disk 3. Nothing happens. I push a paperclip into the reset hole in the back. Nothing happens.
Am I going to have to go through some crazy arcane process of building a Linux machine to get the data off these disks? I was running 4x500GB disks in this, until one day it just stuck like this. Nothing I do seems to work. I've seen some threads like this - http://jim-st.blogspot.com/2012/07/mouning-readynas-drives-on-x86-systems.html and they seem like a crazy amount of programming and hardware customization is going to be needed. I'm going to have to install a VMWare share on a Windows machine, and then ... what?
Holding the Power button down does nothing. To power the unit down, I have to physically yank the plug. Am I just hosed here?
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What ReadyNAS model do you have? If it is an NV+, then please read this post before identifying it as a v1 or a v2: http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how-to-tell-whether-i-have-a-duo-v1-or-duo-v2-or-nv-v1-or-nv-v2/
Also, you can try removing all the drives (labeling by slot) and powering up the NAS. Then install RAIDar on a PC, and see if it can find it. (It's status should be "no disks" of course).
It's an NV+v3.
I yanked Disk #3, and wonder of wonders, it booted up. Only ... now when I try to access the shares, they appear in the RAIDar panel, they even appear in the web console in a browser when I log in -
But when I try to access them, I get an error message "backup [the name of the share] can't be opened because the item can't be found." When I put Drive #3 back, once again I am stuck on FS: 0%. I put in a "clean" disk. Got the same error message that "the item can't be found."
So I can boot. I can see that the shares are there on two functioning disks (although the disk diagnostics tell me that Disk 1 is accumulating errors and may fail soon). But I still can't access the data on the disks.
Suggestions?
Hi davelafontaine,
I suppose you have a v1 unit and it's warranty is expired . In your case, the system still boots up but the data saved on it is unavailable. If the gigs of data needs to be recovered, our support team will gladly help you but expect there is a fee.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
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