• [6.9.2] Unraid Boot USB key overwritten or failed

    Martyzzz

    By Martyzzz

      • Minor

    Hi everybody,

    A few days ago i got a warning in Unraid telling me that my boot usb key was inaccesible, i did nothing with the warning at that time.

    Today i restarted the server and it wouldnt boot, a logical thing after the warning.

    I decided to take the backup of my flash drive from the My Servers section and created a new USB boot drive, this went fairly easy so i hope my server is up and running again soon.

    Only thing is, when i look at the contense of the old boot drive it looks all very strange.

    I looks like the drive is overwritten with all sorts of weird data, see attached file.

    Can anybody tell me that when a USB drive fails, what happened to me is normal because it looks like somebody (Hacker) of something (Unraid) has overwritten the files.

    Do i need to be worried or is this just a case of a drive failing?

     

    Thanks in advance.


    Regards,

    Martijn

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    itimpi

    I think something like that is not uncommon if the drive is failing and it starts returning random data on reads. 

     

    The presence of .REC files suggests that at some earlier tine there had been corruption that was then fixed, so that might have been a warning sign.

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    Martyzzz
    58 minutes ago, ChatNoir said:

    How is the content of the backup you downloaded ?

    Is there weird files there too ?

    Hey, no the backup was fine only it dated from last June.

    Don't know why though

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