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RN104 Stuck In Boot Menu Mode/Normal after firmware upgrade 6.6.1
Last time I logged into my RN104, it offered me a FW upgrade to 6.8.0. I accepted. Something went horribly wrong and my NAS became unusable - completely. My data's fine due to having off-site backups. But, the RN104 is toasted - sort of. When powered on, it wants to (only) boot USB. So I prepared a USB recovery flash drive. It went through the process and powered off the NAS. I powered back on and nothing. It wants to only boot USB. Trying multiple flash drives didn't help. But, in one of those attempts, I neglected to copy the <firmware>.img file to the USB drive and the unit dropped into tech support mode (LCD says "DEBUG $PORT $IP Recovery"). I can use RAIDar to find the unit. It says: Model: None Name: readynasos Serial: NONE000200000 Status: Tech Support Mode Firmware: 6.2.4 IP Address: 198.162.29.190 (28:C6:8E:35:20:6A) Debug code: TELNET Mode I can login via telnet as root, with pw infr8ntdebug. From that point, is it possible for me to reset this whole thing to Factory Defaults or do an OS Reinstall? I have a disk drive I can use in it for this exercise (I'll upgrade to larger, real drives if it works). How would I go about that? Thanks!
zeevi
Oct 12, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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Slow factory reset RN214 with 3 x 1TB drives
I'm swapping from a NV+ to a RN214. All old data is backed up on USB external drive. I put the 3 1TB drives from the NV+ in the 214 and started the factory reset. 24 hrs later it had only resync'd 13% per the front panel screen. Also when I try to access the 214 with Raidar, it sees it, also shows the % complete and 3 good drive but I cannot access the 214. Is this normal. At the rate it will be a week to complete. Ps I first tried it with 4 drives. One brand new 1TB drive and the 3 from the NV+ but it kept throwing off a boot operation error.
MMcD3v1
May 07, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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RN214 Won't Boot even after Factory Reset
Never had a problem till now. I had to move my ReadyNas to another location. Powered down, moved it, turned it back on and it's stuck on "Booting... 67%" After much internet searching, I tried diiferent options in the boot menu -- OS Reinstall, and even Factory Default (I do have everything backed up), but with both options and multiple attempts, it still stalls out while Booting, somewhere between 60-57%.The power button blinks blue, all 4 disk lights are lit up, and the ACT light is flashing steady. I left it trying to boot overnight, no progress. Was looking into the USB Recovery tool, but couldn't figure it out. Also I use a Mac and can't open exe files. I'm not sure the firmware. I haven't updated it in probably 6 months. I use this device primarily with PLEX. I would have thought a Factory Reset would do the trick. I'm just trying to get the thing back up and running. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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parkeryoung
Feb 24, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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RN102 won't do the factory reset
Wanting the factory reset (push the reset button with a paperclip, put on power, see all lights go on, select Disk 1 with backup button, press the reset again with the paperclip) it won't do the reset. The power button flashes for a moment, and then... nothing happens. And since the RN102 is invisible in my network on 2 computers from one day to another, I guess I have to do the reset..? Does this mean that all data is still available on disc 2 (since it is a 2 bay NAS)? But however, I want it to work again. The factory reset is not working. What can I do?
ABNL
Oct 24, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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