LS-CH1.0TL lost its IP...

[dreadpyrat]

Hi all, I have a Linkstation LS-CH1.0TL with the 1.60 firmware. I'm trying to run it on a Win7 64bit laptop. I connected it, got it to show up in NasNavigator, and got some errors. It would not retrieve the system time. After fiddling with it for a while, decided to restore to factory defaults. This ran for a bit, the NAS rebooted, and it hung over night on  a screen about "resetting". I closed the Settings window since it was obliviously hung after sitting like that for 14 hours. Now NAS Navi cannot find any linkstations. Tried reinstalling NN, tried reinstalling firmware. Nothing. I cannot find the NAS on the network and since I'm sure the IP was reset, I cannot manually access it. I've no idea now how to get back onto my nas where I've got a terabyte of data I hope I've not lost!

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rob

[davo]

what is the LED on the top doing? Is it solid or flashing? What colour?

[dreadpyrat]

It is doing 3 long flashes in red. According to the user manual....that is an RTC Chip error? I've no idea what t do with that information. ;) I've a ton of data on the drive - is thre any way to recover it? 

[davo]

Actually, thats E30, a HDD error. Might be a physical fault with the HDD itself. IF you have no backup (which you should have at all times) then contact a data recovery company.

[dreadpyrat]

Harddrive error? I dont understnd how it could happen, as I was jsut setting it to factory defaults thru the web interface. Somehow that triggered a drive failure? Anywa,y this drive WAS my backup. Bummer. 

[davo]

FYI a backup is when you have 2 copies of the data.

[dreadpyrat]

So is there anyway to access the drive, even to reformat it? I cant figure out how to even get the drive to show up...

[dreadpyrat]

Anyone? Appreciate any help...

[davo]

The HDD is faulty, short of replacing the HDD yourself and reloading the boot image there is nothing you can do.

[dreadpyrat]

Davo, thanks for the reply and info. I very much apprecaite it. 

Rob