A few days ago I lost the ability to see one of the volumes on the NAS. I could see Volume 2 but not Volume 1. I use the “net use” commands in a batch file to connect and disconnect the volumes to different drive letters. I tried disconnecting then reconnecting a few times, but each time I could only see one of the volumes. Two days later I was not able to connect to either volume. I get the error “System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found.” I’ve tried this from different computers, and tried a new network cable to the NAS. It’s been a while, but I believe I had set it up for RAID 0, with the remainder as JBOD.
The LED’s on the front of the unit are blue, indicating they are okay. I can still connect to the NAS control panel, so that seems to tell me the networking is okay. I have flushed the DNS just to be sure, that did not help. In the Status page of the NAS, under Hard Drive Info, it says 0 total drives. However, just below that it shows the two Seagate 1GB drives. Oh, every time I log into the NAS control panel it asks me to select a RAID type and reformat the drives. While I don’t have anything I can’t live without on the NAS, I’d rather not reformat again. (This problem happened about two years ago and I reformatted the drives, it had been okay up until now.) I’ve searched this forum and Googled all I can, and I’m out of ideas. Hard drive failure? NAS failure?
I appreciate any help that comes my way.
-Ed
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