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abakes
Aspirant
Feb 10, 2014

New Disk, X-RAID is Dead

I had a drive fail which stopped my unit from booting. I replaced the drive and was able to boot normally.

However, on Frontview, the status says "Volume C: Offline, RAID Level , disks, 0% of 0 MB used" after installing the new disk. On Volume Settings, all 3 disks show as active with no error, and the "resync volume" button is disabled.

How can I get the RAID to rebuild itself? I am unable to access any of my shares.

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  • Did you remove the bad disk and replace it with the NAS powered on? You should have.
    Do you have a backup?
    Did you receive any messages about a new disk or a resync starting?
    Try rebooting the unit, possibly more than once to see if the resync starts.
  • Thanks for the reply!

    I did not replace the bad disk when the NAS was powered on because the NAS would not boot (even into support mode) with the bad disk in it.

    I have no backup ( I know, I know, bad!).

    Mo messages were received about a new disk or resync (although is does see the new disk properly).

    I have rebooted the unit several times. I have also left the unit on for an extended duration to see if it needed to anything to initialize the disk.

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    What gets me is that the "resync" button is greyed out and can't be clicked. I even tried reinstalling my firmware.
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Of course if it boots without the old/new disk, then the first step is to create or update your backups.

    Then try hot-inserting the new disk.

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