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davelafontaine
Aug 14, 2016Aspirant
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...
StephenB
Aug 14, 2016Guru - Experienced User
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).
- davelafontaineAug 16, 2016Aspirant
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?
- BrianL2Aug 16, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
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- davelafontaineAug 21, 2016Aspirant
Argh. I think I've seen that the fees for such things tend to wind up in the thousands of dollars. I've got about 1.5TB of data locked away on these disks. Thank Dog that I also backed it up on other external disks, and in other places.
I'm going to have to go through now and try to figure out what is where - this is a hazard of working with photos, videos and other multimedia. I had hoped that the NetGear would be a reliable way to make sure that I didn't lose anything.
Dang. :smileyfrustrated:
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