TS1200D0802 Emergency Mode

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I have a TS1200D0802 where both drives seem to be bad/corrupt.  After replacing both drives with brand new drives, I can hear them spin up, but the NAS is in Emergency Mode.  Both NAS Navigator 2 and the TS Firmware Updater utility see the device on the network and I've tried re-initalizing the entire unit with a new firmware by adding the following lines to the tsupdater.ini file:

[Flags]
VersionCheck = 0
NoFormatting = 0

[SpecialFlags]
Debug = 1

I get a message "Partition not detected, the target will be formatted" and I select "yes" to continue, but then I receive the message "Format Failed.  Update Aborted". 

Granted, the instructions I found to modify the ini file seemed to be for a LinkStation, not a TeraSTation, but I couldn't find a recovery procedure for the TS series.

Anyone have any advice?  I'm not attempting to recover any data, I just want to start over with these fresh drives and the latest firmware.  I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

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Did you enable any debug options when you tried? It should work if you enable all except update boot.

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It seems the ini flag I set doesn't enable the debug options in the firmware tool GUI.  Maybe because I'm using the LS instructions on a TS model?

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Its the same for both

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what happens if you click on the top-left corner of the tsupdater window?