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CDStoneley
Jun 08, 2017Aspirant
'Management service is offline' after 6.7.4 upgrade
I inadvertantly kicked off the firmware update to 6.7.4, and now although my RN314 has rebooted, and the display cycles between displaying ReadyNAS 314 6.7.4 and displaying the current state...
- Jun 09, 2017
You may have run into an issue fixed by 6.7.5 Beta 1
You could download the firmware update and install it via https://ip.address.of.nas/fwbroker
StephenB
Jul 03, 2017Guru - Experienced User
If you want to do a factory default, another way is to zero or unpartition the disks. For instance, connect the drives to a windows system, run the windows disk manager, and then delete all the partitions ("volumes" in windows parlance) on the drives.
laithabdul
Jul 04, 2017Aspirant
I want to do a factory default readynas rn 4220.
I want any way to access the readynas
Thanks
- StephenBJul 04, 2017Guru - Experienced User
There are two ways I described earlier in this thread
- boot menu
- power down, unformat all the disks, then power up
Did you try either of those?
- laithabdulJul 05, 2017Aspirant
The first method (boot menu) did not work
The second methode (unformat all the disks) I did not understand it needs more detailThanks
- StephenBJul 05, 2017Guru - Experienced User
laithabdul wrote:
The second methode (unformat all the disks) I did not understand it needs more detail
- Connect each disk to a windows PC (USB or SATA).
- Open the windows disk manager (entering diskmgmt.msc on the run line will work).
- At the bottom of the disk manager window you will see each disk in the system. There's a graphic next to each disk that shows every partition (which Windows calls "volumes" for some reason).
- Right click on each partition in the graphic, and select "delete volume"
- Put all the disks back into the unpowered NAS and turn it on. It will do a factory install (since all the disks are blank).
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