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Stuck on boot checking file system
Hi,
This is my first post and first time using this forum, so bear with me if this has already been answered since I'm still new with navigating this forum. Recently my ReadyNAS NV+ was hung and now cannot restart. Here is what happened:
- One day I noticed that the ReadyNAS cannot be reached
- I went to check on it and it was hung with the 3rd drive light blinking
- I reboot
- ReadyNAS came back on-line and showed the 3rd drive as "Dead", but also did not mount any of the remaining disks (i.e. shows 0/0 free on volume C)
- I reboot via the browser admin screen and checked of "check file system on reboot"
- first attempt was stuck on 93% with 3rd drive light blinking and power light (blue) blinking
- second attempt was stuck at 17%
What should I do? I've been seeing some advice about doing a non-destructive OS re-install. Can someone point me in the right direction for instructions? Is it possible to take the 3 "good" drives and plug them into a new ReadyNAS to recover my data? If so, what is the latest enclosure that is compatible?
Thanks in advance.
This is my first post and first time using this forum, so bear with me if this has already been answered since I'm still new with navigating this forum. Recently my ReadyNAS NV+ was hung and now cannot restart. Here is what happened:
- One day I noticed that the ReadyNAS cannot be reached
- I went to check on it and it was hung with the 3rd drive light blinking
- I reboot
- ReadyNAS came back on-line and showed the 3rd drive as "Dead", but also did not mount any of the remaining disks (i.e. shows 0/0 free on volume C)
- I reboot via the browser admin screen and checked of "check file system on reboot"
- first attempt was stuck on 93% with 3rd drive light blinking and power light (blue) blinking
- second attempt was stuck at 17%
What should I do? I've been seeing some advice about doing a non-destructive OS re-install. Can someone point me in the right direction for instructions? Is it possible to take the 3 "good" drives and plug them into a new ReadyNAS to recover my data? If so, what is the latest enclosure that is compatible?
Thanks in advance.
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- OS reinstall instructions are in the hardware manual.
First though, you should confirm your model (V1 or V2). The labels are misleading, so use this guide: http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how ... -or-nv-v2/
Note you can also bypass the file system check during reboot. That might be worth doing first. If it succeeds, I suggest that you backup your data before doing anything else. If you don't have enough disk capacity to make a full backup, at least back up what you can.
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