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Author Topic: Avoiding "wrong disk" formatting  (Read 2988 times)

lucypotato

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Avoiding "wrong disk" formatting
« on: April 19, 2009, 12:47:01 PM »

I have a DNS-323 which currently has a single 1.5TB drive. In the future I plan to add a second, but with great dismay I've been reading about an issue some have had with the 323 formatting the existing disk when a new one is installed.
Of course, my data is backed up, but I'd resent having to restore over a TB of data for such a silly reason.
My question: Is there a method of adding the new drive that insures the original will not be re-formatted? Should I pop out the first before I add the second? I'm leery about this since (unless I've misunderstood) one poster ran into trouble doing just that.
Fortunately, I won't be needing the second for a few months... perhaps there will be an update that fixes the issue before then.
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Zardoz66

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Re: Avoiding "wrong disk" formatting
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2009, 01:28:11 PM »

I posted a how to do this here is a link.

PS; 1.07 is the same way.

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=4765.0
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Zardoz66

DGL-4300 v1.9 | DAP-1522 v1.20 | DGS-2208 | DPR-1260 v1.24 | DNS-323 v1.6
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1 Seagate ST3300831AS 3NF1E956 300 G 
2 Seagate ST3300831AS 3NF1E03G 300 G