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Title: Trying to format the HDDs - problem?
Post by: K G B on September 27, 2013, 01:33:44 AM

Hi guys,
I took out my old NAS box drives 4x3TB and placed inside dns-345 it prompted me to re-format drives and I did but I get "partitioning" popup and its been like this for 30 hours.

Reason why I am getting itchy is that some people are posting topics like "formatting stuck at 10%"
I do not get any percentage just word sating "partitioning" and little spinning circle next to it.

I installed latest beta firmware from forum links.
Reset the NAS to factory settings after that.

Do I have to format the HDDs on my PC due to them being from another NAS?

Title: Re: Trying to format the HDDs - problem?
Post by: K G B on September 27, 2013, 04:06:00 PM

OK This is getting really annoying.
Now the little circle icon next to partitioning has stopped rotating after 50 hours.
All I have now is this: http://s21.postimg.org/l4kz2bgx3/image.jpg (http://s21.postimg.org/l4kz2bgx3/image.jpg)
Is this what people are getting when starting to format their bloody HDDs?

NAS produces no noise or vibrations, HDDs are completely silent.

This should not be this difficult, what am I doing wrong?

Title: Re: Trying to format the HDDs - problem?
Post by: K G B on September 27, 2013, 04:34:28 PM

First of all let me apologise for triple posting in a row but seems easier to follow if other people with similar problems are reading this.

Solved it!!!

HDDs were in a raid setup in another RAID prior to them being placed in this NAS box.
I was under impression that dns-345 would re-format the drives and be on its way.
It didn't work.

I had to manually connect each drive to my PC and in device manager and delete all volumes on those drives.
After that it took 5 seconds for "partitioning" screen to disappear and "formatting" screen to appear.

Hope my problems can help some poor bugger in the future.

Title: Re: Trying to format the HDDs - problem?
Post by: JavaLawyer on September 27, 2013, 07:45:06 PM

You applied the correct solution for this type of problem. The DNS-345 formats HDDs using the Linux filesystem, as do many other NAS makes/models. The ShareCenter series is known to sometimes get confused when encountering a new HDD with previous Linux formatting. First mounting the HDDs in Windows and removing existing partitions will remove all traces of the previous Linux formatting.

ShareCenter FAQ > DNS ShareCenter - Reformatting a HDD  (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=46261.0)