OK. This drive was on a small network in a legal office. The network became infected with the comficker virus. This lawyers data is absolutely critical that nothing happens to it, so I copied the files on it to my computer and cleaned them up. To ensure that the drive was clean- I decided to erase the drive. using the web management screen.
It has been formatting it ever since. I can still access the login screen, but all of the functions on it are disabled except the " direct disk copy " button. If I click that, it says that the drive is performing a disk function and cannot do a disk copy, and also that all file sharing, etc have been disabled.
The LED at the top of it is blinking 3 times. I looked that up and it says that that means there is a problem with the partition and that I should format the disk.
I tried initializing the drive and it goes right back where it was. My questions are--
1. Is the drive toast?
2. Is there a way to physically return the drive to the factory settings?
Any help- much appreciated.
Rixx