Help, I have an old TS-212 and drive 2 was showing errors. I had a drive from an old nas at work so brought that home. Took out drive 2 (the one connected with cables, not the one connected directly to the drive. Turned on and both drive lights went green. All good im thinking. However I couldnt log on and qfinder was finding the new drive rather than the one i left in the nas. Im seriously worried it has started rebuilding over my good drive. Can anyone help please, seriously panicing. It was even showing the works old nas name and files on the drive. i couldnt see the nas name i wanted on qfinder.
I have just turned everthing off for now until I have a new couse of action.
I am sorry don’t quite get it.
But if your storage was not configured as RAID 1, or if the other drive was also not good, replacing a drive wouldn’t be possible.
I suggest you replace all with the original drives, and backup data outside of the NAS first.
So I guess my original drive in the NAS is being overwritten?
I tried unplugging the new drive and booting the NAS but it didn’t come on (didn’t show LED lights for either drive on the front of the NAS). What would happen if I put the old drive back in (bad sectors but still working) and removed drive A?
I would back everything up from drive 2 first though.
I do have some backup but neglected it over the last year so I’d really want to recover the situation if I can.
We strongly recommend you try shutting down and removing the new hard drive first to confirm the state of your old drive’s data, and get a backup done ASAP.
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I have taken the drive which was registering as faulty and been able to recover all my files onto a new external drive. I used Diskinternals Linux reader software. I can highly recommend this free software, so easy to use.
My next move will be to format the old drive in the as along with the replacement one I added which kicked all this off. Starting afresh..
I’ve finally gotten around to putting the drives back in the nas. I did a quick format on the pc and transferred them to the nas. Qfinder cannot find the nas on the network so I plugged directly network port to network port. Qfinder does find it this time but gives it the 169.254.100.100 address. Also says it needs to be initialised. However when I click yes to initialise it cannot find the nas. Where do I go from here? Cheers
No, nothing on the network. MAC not showing on the router but it wouldn’t of course having that address. Qfinder shows nas only when directly connected with the 169.254.100.100 address.
Pressing reset button resets but ends up in the same place.
Done all that and back to same place. Been able to initiate firmware update but it gave me a warning that it might fail as bad not initialised. Now stuck on 10% and I’ve gone to bed. If it’s on 10% in the morning it’s getting mashed!
