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jds90
Feb 23, 2025Tutor
usb flash recovery 4.1.8.img
bought a second hand readynas duo rnd2000 v2, using RAIDar its found on my network, see' both seagate 500gb, but its saying corrupt root, wher can i find this....thanks in advance Joe
- Feb 27, 2025
jds90 wrote:
the nas sees the 80gb, its recognized when i hit the disk icon but also says corrupt root , the nas also sees both hard drives and displays them also when i hit the disk icons but stills says corrupt root.
Did you try doing a factory reset using the boot menu? This is done with the disks installed:
- Power off your system.
- Using a straightened paper clip, press and hold the Reset button.
- Press and release the Power button to power on the system.
- To perform a factory reset, continue to hold the Reset button until all Disk LEDs flash twice (once at 5 seconds and then 25 seconds later), and then release the button.
Make sure you hold the reset button down long enough on step 4.
The reset button is recessed and is on the rear panel:
jds90
Feb 24, 2025Tutor
Hi thanks for the reply, both disks are fine and healthy, checked with mini tool partion wizard, originally when i got it there was 1 x 80gb seagate barracuda in it, took it out and put 2 500gb in
ex IT mobile engineer for a big company, so know what i am doing, but this thing is working its ticket.....joe
Sandshark
Feb 24, 2025Sensei - Experienced User
Nobody said there is anything wrong with the drives. The drives must be formatted by the NAS itself, and the message you are getting is usually because there is some "foreign" partitioning/formatting on the drives. That you tested the drives with a partitioning tool makes me think that even more. Use that tool to remove all partitions, then return them to the NAS.
- StephenBFeb 24, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Sandshark wrote:
Use that tool to remove all partitions, then return them to the NAS.
jds90 - powering up the NAS with blank disks (no partitions) will result in the NAS automatically formatting the drives and doing a factory install.
The factory default procedure I suggested earlier in the discussion thread does the same thing (though there is a 10 minute delay in that case before the procedure actually starts).
FWIW, If I were getting new disks for your NAS I would have gotten 2 TB Ironwolf models - getting maximum storage.
- jds90Feb 24, 2025Tutor
both hard drives are unformatted all partions removed, like a new blank hard drive
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