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kjbnz
Aug 31, 2012Aspirant
X-Raid Engine Failed to Start Dual disc failure. #19333472
Hi there, I have a ReadyNas NV+ (V1 RND4000) that was left on whilst I was travelling. During that period I had two drives fail. (First drive 2, then drive 1) When I tried to restart the N...
StephenB
Sep 03, 2012Guru - Experienced User
The idea is to clone the two bad disks. Damage remains, but the clone can be read/written without errors.
kjbnz wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong - Would the clone from the "good" discs, be the same as a clone from eithier of the failed discs?
Thanks
After that, you insert the clones (with the power off) in their original slots and boot up. Files stored on unreadable spots of the bad drive would be corrupted or lost, but other spots could be ok (depending on exactly how damaged the disks are).
You could also clone the good drives, the only reason to do that would be to make sure you have a full set of original data, so that you could try again if the recovery attempt fails.
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