Netgear ready nas 2100 Corrupt boot

[JMoses]

I am trying to set up a netgear readyNAS 2100 but all i get in raidar is Corrput boot, it shows me the ip and i can pinging it but i can't get into the admin portal raidar does not let me, i have tryed going thought the web portal by putting in the ip followed by /admin and i get nothing

I am not too sure how to do a reinstall as i can't login, i know there is a way to do it using usb but i have looked and it does not seem to do much, am i rigth in thinking it needs an os install and if so how and what do i need to do.

Any help would be Great.

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

You shouldn't be using USB (at least not yet).

"Corrupt root" usually happens when you are using used disk drives (already formatted).  There are three options - 

• Do a factory default using the boot menu (see pages 12-13 here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RNDU2000/RackMount_HW_2June11.pdf )
• Zero the disks - for instance in a windows PC using Seagate's Seatools or WDC's lifeguard utility.
• Unformat the disks/delete the partitions - for instance in a windows PC using the Windows disk manager

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

You shouldn't be using USB (at least not yet).

"Corrupt root" usually happens when you are using used disk drives (already formatted).  There are three options - 

• Do a factory default using the boot menu (see pages 12-13 here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RNDU2000/RackMount_HW_2June11.pdf )
• Zero the disks - for instance in a windows PC using Seagate's Seatools or WDC's lifeguard utility.
• Unformat the disks/delete the partitions - for instance in a windows PC using the Windows disk manager