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Author Topic: Any problem with restoring to Factory settings with no discs installed?  (Read 3639 times)

emcee2

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Hi.
I pulled my disks out to sort out a problem.  I installed a new firmware version (1.08) during that process.  Reading some other posts here it seems that I should probably restore the unit to factory defaults and then reconfigure any particular settings I had.

If I do the restore to factory defaults, does it matter if the discs are in or not?  I do not want the unit to reformat the disks when I pop them back in...

Thanks...
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gunrunnerjohn

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Shouldn't make any difference.
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Wiggs

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Should be fine.  When you put the drives back, place them in the bays they were in if you are using RAID1.
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Wiggs,

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emcee2

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Hi.  Another somewhat related question...
I've tried "Scan Disk" under "Disk Tools" a few times now but it always fails, but tells me nothing more than that.  Somewhat frustrating in that I don't know if there is an actual fault with the disks or what.

Assuming I get this puppy recognized by my home router, I'm prepared to copy everything off the DNS-323 Volume and then reformat the whole thing (it is RAID1 now)... but how the heck do you do that?  The button to "set RAID Type and Re-Format" is "unavailable".

Or should I just delve into the whole Telnet access thing and try and sort some things out from there?
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gunrunnerjohn

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First off, I'd take the drives and run the manufacturer's diagnostics on them connected to a computer directly.  Then you'll know if they having a problem or it's the NAS.
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Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.