Buffalo Terastation WSX2.0TL - replaced both hard drives, now nothing

[chewyfood]

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

[davo]

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

[1000001101000]

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.

[chewyfood]

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"?

[oxygen8]

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