So, there is really no way for me to analyze the disks while remain in the appliance. It is not a separate LINUX-based flash OS, like other NAS units. Part of the Windows 2008 Storage Server OS is installed on the RAID partition.
WD SENTINEL DX4000 HARD DRIVE MANUAL
Based on the error sequence, the WD manual suggests that there is RAID problem. It will not start up or provide any information about the disks within. Are you sure the controller architecture is RST and will 3rd party recovery utilities be able to support it?Īdrian - absent of using one of the recovery methods above, the NAS is dead. Hence, I am very interested in other options. It is a 3+ day ordeal that has shown limited success.
The former requires setting up a separate "worker" machine running Win7 with 4 new disks installed.
WD SENTINEL DX4000 HARD DRIVE FULL
You need to either need to go through the full RESTORE or RECREATE STORAGE (destructive) options with their customer ISO>USB boot loader. Supaplex - based on what I have read from the WD KB's, and in the WD Community, there is not an option to simply restore the Win2008 operating system while ignoring the RAID data partition. Looking to find there is a success story out there … There are no RED lights above any drive bays, so I cannot determine a single or multiple disk failure(s). I believe this has 4 x 2TB drives running RAID 5, but I was not involved in the original procurement and configuration of the device. This is not an absolute emergency, as most of the information is part of redundant systems in the cloud - but the severe inconvenience warrants some time & effort (and inve$tment). I have found various options on the WD Community forums that suggest ways to "fix" the DX4000 unit, but I am literally thinking out of the box right now.Īssuming that I give up on restoring / recovering the NAS device, what are the chances of using commercial 3rd party software to salvage some of the data? Is the RAID architecture fairly standard - given that these units run Windows Storage Server 2008? Wondering if anyone here has had success with this process.
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