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Author Topic: Add New Drive  (Read 3286 times)

Azoth89

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Add New Drive
« on: February 07, 2012, 11:30:00 AM »
Hi all, (forgive my poor English, I'm French   ;D)

I am facing a problem with my NAS. I have a hard drive that contained data (Disk B) which is a Seagate ST2000DL003 and a blank hard disk (Disk A) which is a Western Digital WD20EARS.
So I installed the Western Digital in the NAS (left) and I formatted and then I connected the Seagate on my PC and have transferred files from PC to NAS. Until here everything worked fine.

But when I tried to install the Seagate (right then) in the NAS refused to start, the diodes of the two discs are lit in blue-violet and the power light flashes continuously.

I then tried to reset the NAS, he started it right (blue LED and orange for Seagate WD (Normal I think because it is formatted in NTFS and not EXT3) and I could access the page formatting disks, only when I format the Seagate, nothing happens the formatting stays at 0%

I restart without the Seagate and the NAS will not start, the power light flashes continuously ...
Even diskless in the NAS refuses to start ...

How can I format the Seagate without erasing data from WD?
Thank you that you look at my problem
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cable2

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Re: Add New Drive
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2012, 12:10:23 PM »
Hi,
Not sure I have everything clear, but when you say you did a "reset", do you mean you put a paper clip or whatever into the "reset" hole on the back of the unit and held it in for at least 5 seconds while the unit was powered on.  If not, do that.  About he new bare drive, try deleting the partition(s) before you try to install it again. 
I recall there being a problem getting a new drive not being recongnized for formatting unless it was in the rightside slot.  Might try just putting the new bare drive in alone to see if you can get it recognized and formatted properly as a standard volume and then putting the drive with data back in later.  That's all I can thing of right now.  Good luck
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Azoth89

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Re: Add New Drive
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2012, 12:52:43 PM »
When I say "reset", I speak well of McGyver's tool which is inserted into the hole at the back of the NAS.
Anyway I did what you told me to do:

I connected the disk that was the problem on my PC, open the disk manager of Windows and then, surprise! The disc contained seven partitions :o (2 FAT32, 2 NTFS, 2 ext3 and 1 ext2), giving a total of 2.6 TB for a 2 TB drive  :P ... So I deleted all the partitions, placed the disk and left alone, then I managed to be formatted.

However, as this disc was named Volume_1 and former Volume_1 so I thought there would be conflict ... but not at all! The NAS has just renamed the new drive (located on the right) in Volume_2  8)

Thank you for help cable2, quick and efficient response!
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