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Author Topic: [Solved] Drive detected but unable to reformat it  (Read 4033 times)

jdoe1234

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[Solved] Drive detected but unable to reformat it
« on: August 17, 2012, 09:24:08 AM »

Hi,

I have a DNS320 with a WD Green WD20EARX-00PASB0 2TB.

When I plug it in initially, it was detected fine and there is option to reformat it. However, I decided to do a firmware upgrade. So I updated the NAS to 2.02. The option to reformat my drive is now grayed out but I still can see my drive in Hard Drive Info.

I have swapped bays and it is still the same. How do I fix this? Could this be a firmware issue? If so, is there a way I can downgrade it? Thanks
« Last Edit: August 17, 2012, 10:27:22 AM by jdoe1234 »
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jdoe1234

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Re: Drive detected but unable to reformat it
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2012, 10:26:55 AM »

Guys, I just got this fixed in the most unlikely way.

I used Internet Explorer 9 to access the Web UI and subsequently I was able to format the drive. I was using Chrome previously. I have had similar problems with enterprise grade security / network products with fancy Web UI management interface / portal and most of the time. They seemed to work well / much better with Internet Explorer.

Cheers!
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JavaLawyer

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Re: [Solved] Drive detected but unable to reformat it
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2012, 10:39:04 AM »

For many D-Link products, IE seems to work best for UI access (followed by Firefox), while Chrome seems to behave the most erratically, often causing breaks in functionality.
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Re: [Solved] Drive detected but unable to reformat it
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2012, 11:59:06 AM »

That is one thing that makes me very angry with a number of manufactures. 

After all it's not as if IE is standards compliant in any shape or form and not all of us use windows.

Maybe D-Link should do something about making their web UI standards compliant then we wouldn't have these problems.
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zakis_

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Re: [Solved] Drive detected but unable to reformat it
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2012, 06:21:08 AM »

hi
thanks for the solution, now I'm trying formatting using IE9
appeared a message "Waiting ...."
I'm formatting a disc: WD Green 7TB

your nas in how long time finish??

im wating...


tnk!
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