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I replaced both hard drives with new ones, completely blank. I wanted more storage.

Now the unit just reports no init file on either hard drive and nothing happens. I just get the red LED saying there is no array information (my previous settings were Raid 1).

I can't connect to the web interface either - it just says connection refused in my browser page.

What do I need to do to initialize these disks and get my terastation back in working order?

Thanks

You need the recovery image for the unit. The OS was on the original disks.

You can get the stock firmware installed using the process mentioned in this post:

https://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=25358.msg90493#msg90493

If you prefer to use TFTP you can use the files extracted in Step 1 with the TFTP process instead.

So I used the directions you guys linked and everything is fine - I'm back at the default login (in Japanese). So I have the two drives in there. Both of them are NAS drives, and one of them reports as "broken", but it is not broken. I can connect it to my windows PC, see the partition table. Hell, I can format it and use it as a full-fledged Windows drive.

Is there something that NAS devices detect that Windows cannot that determines them to be "failures" or "broken"?

buffalo uses the SMART status
windows is not able to read this
you can use Crystal Disk Info to read out the error messages under windows

http://forum.nas-hilfe.de/festplatten-und-ssd-laufwerke/pruefung-einer-festplatte-unter-windows-t1289.html