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I have an older Nas Duo, it was working fine and then suddenly was not accessible. I’m pretty sure I lost both drives, my fault, it had stopped e mailing me status and I had not been checking it. I’m sure it lost one drive followed by the second later. I did try to reboot and all I get is the blue flashing light, no drive lights. I pulled the drives and looked at them using a Linux box. One drive spins up and shows all as unallocated space. The other has what I think is the Linux structure on it, and there are shortcuts to the folders I had, but when I try to access the shortcuts, it says the directory is not valid. If I look at the folder it points to, nothing is in it.
The part number is RND4TRAY1-10000S, which might help googling. They are hard to find. Newer trays have a square latch button, the older design with the circular button tended to jam. Both will work.
Trays for the NV+, Duo, Ultra, and Pro desktop NAS are all interchangeable. OS 6 NAS use a different tray design, as do rackmount ReadyNAS.
Thanks for info. I thought it was going to work, but the drive seems to be bad. I have it in a dock and the dock starts beeping and sounding error beeps for bad drive. I can look into some folders, others causes the thing to go nuts. As you can see from the attached, it isn't able to get into the C. It looked like is was going to work, but I think it just can't read the drive.
If you have a windows PC, try testing the second drive with the vendor diagnostic (seatools for seagate, lifeguard for western digital). If the drive is healthy, the NAS should boot up with only that drive in place (in the original slot if you remember it).
You could try cloning one of the disks if it is marginal, but I suspect it's too late for that with the disk you are working on now.
Brilliant, it booted with just the one drive, I guess it's the parity drive. It's the one I could not see any files on when connected to my Linux box. The other dirve I could see the file structure, but it was very corrupt and I could not mount the C drive as instructed, or access it without the dock it was in beebing a death code.
It looks like I will be able to recover my files. I had some backups, but there was a lot on the NAS that I wasn't sure I had backed up. I better do a better job of backing up.
I'm copying the files now before I install a new drive and let it rebuild.
One thing, do you know if I can get new drive bays. When I opened them, the little plastic catches broke. It is pretty old, but it would be nice to keep using it.
The part number is RND4TRAY1-10000S, which might help googling. They are hard to find. Newer trays have a square latch button, the older design with the circular button tended to jam. Both will work.
Trays for the NV+, Duo, Ultra, and Pro desktop NAS are all interchangeable. OS 6 NAS use a different tray design, as do rackmount ReadyNAS.
You were a big help. I was about to give up, but you kept me going with your advice. I'm coping all the files off the NAS and it is going well. It would have been a bit of a loss if I could not have recovered them, so I than you very much. I will close this out now.
