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[telemaxx]

What i the best way to replace a old and small Disk against a bigger one ?

(I want only to have one Disk in my 320 Box)

Idea :
putting the disk in the free slot and start "local Backup"
When finished, remove the old one and put the new in that slot.
Does that work ?

Whats about hidden files and folders, are there also copied ?
And what is with the file permissions ?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas

[ivan]

If you want only one disk in the DNS-320, though why that should be I can't fathom out, the simple thing is to pull the existing disk, install and format the new one and then restore from your backup.

I am assuming you don't have a backup by your question therefore you need to get an SATA to USB adapter then you can pull your old disk, install and format the new one and copy from your old disk via USB.

Any required system files will be created on the new disk by the format/setup process.

[lucanorillo]

I think you want this: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=46506.0

But I dont know if it is possible to copy after the data from the old to the new..

[telemaxx]

Thanks for the replies,
i will try the procedure of "lucanorillo´s" link.

Today i order the new Disk and a soon it arrives i will report here, what happents...

[ivan]

You do realise you will end up with TWO drives in your DNS-320 using that method not the one you are looking for.

[telemaxx]

You do realise you will end up with TWO drives in your DNS-320 using that method not the one you are looking for.

Yes i realized that.I just removed the old Drive after that.

Maybe someone want to do the same, so here how i did that:

1. Shutdown
2. remove old drive from slot 1 and maybe ist a good Idea is to mark it
3. Insert new Drive in that Slot 1
4. Power Up, and open Browser to format the new Drive (10min.)
there coming two windows 1st formating going to 100 Percent and i thougth it was finished.
But Later a second Window is coming "Initializing"
5. Shutdown, old drive in Slot 2, Power up
Now i was a bit surprised that the shared folder are on "Volume_2", i have expected an error.
6. Management-> Accountmanagement->Networkshares->Reset Networkshares
7. Application-> Local Backup->Cat:Internal,Type: Folder,URL: home_2,Saveto: home_2, Incemental BU, Time: 2minutes in the feature, Save.
8. Wait until it finish,Speed is about 20MB/sec.
9. Check if used Size is the same as on Volume_2, i had to restart the BU once more.
I notices that the Fan was really noisy, that i have expected. That is the reason i only want to have one Drive in the NAS.
10. Powerdown, remove old drive.
11. Remove the Standartshare "Volume_1", an recreate my old foldershares

EDIT:
The upnp shares are not working after the upgrade.
12. Remove the shares: Management->Application Man.-> Upnp AV Server- -> delete and recreate shares.

The FTP/Http Download tasks are gone.
13. i had to recreate. Application->FTP/Http Downloads