1. Decided this morning to switch out the drives in the NAS. The system had 4 – 2TB WD greens in it and I didn’t really want to use those for a NAS, so I replaced them with 4 Htachi enterprise drives. Before adding them, I formatted and made new simple NTFS volumes on a different PC, so it would be a fresh start.
2. Still getting the same “Boot Fail” Error after switching out the drives
3. Had issues with USB boot recovery stick erroring out and looking for the OS when using it to boot into the NAS – I was using a Linux USB installer on Windows 10. Decided to switch it up and use a different USB boot installer – Used Universal USB installer and created the bootable flash drive
4. Started NAS in USB mode with the new Boot image/recovery image, was able to get past the “Boot Fail” error and it started loading the firmware from the USB
5. After loading the Firmware onto the new array, the system was recognizable in Navigator and showing up in Emergency Mode in Navigator
6. I used the TS-Updater to find the NAS and ran an update on the system
7. It asked if I would like to format the drives (This has been the farthest I have gotten when reinstalling the firmware
8. After formatting the new drives, the TS-updater application started download and installing the firmware to the drives
9. After completion, I restarted the NAS without the USB
10. I was able to login with the default admin password and the array/drives where present.
Small issue I had is the firmware used defaulted to Japanese, but was lucky to find an option to switch it to English.
I also reached out to Buffallo’s official support and they told me it was not possible to add the firmware onto new drives. That doesn’t really make sense on a pro-station, what happened if you lost disk, how would you ever replace them?
I want to thank 1000001101000 and Kane88 for all the support the last few days! Thanks! I’m definitely going to stop in and see if I can help other figure out their issues! Thanks again!! I would say this thread is closed