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rsbeck
May 17, 2017Aspirant
ReadyNAS NV+ v1 Replaced Drive, Won't Boot
Hello, I have the ReadyNas NV+ v1. It came with four 750Gig drives. I saw a warning message on the front of the unit that one of my drives was experiencing errors, so I removed drive #1, the un...
dmahon1
May 29, 2017Aspirant
I don't know why you have the error that you have, and good luck sorting it out, but I thought the correct procedure for doing what you wanted would have been to put the new disk (same size or larger) into slot one WITHOUT powering down.
StephenB
May 29, 2017Guru - Experienced User
dmahon1 wrote:
... I thought the correct procedure for doing what you wanted would have been to put the new disk (same size or larger) into slot one WITHOUT powering down.
I always recommend hot-insertion, since that gives the NAS a clear indication that a drive is removed and the new one inserted.
But installing a blank disk with the NAS powered down also works.
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