I recently tried to upgrade to the new version of Unraid doing the normal update process and after the auto-reboot my system is stuck on the blue boot screen.
Very similar to this person's issue here:
I removed the USB boot drive from my Unraid machine, plugged it into a laptop running Windows 10. It automatically detected problems, I clicked Repair, but the repair was unsuccessful, it kept saying disk was either read-only or write protected.
I tried doing a CHKDSK on the USB drive, and no success.
So I think I just need to use a new USB drive. I found these instructions and followed them.
https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Changing_The_Flash_Device
I am not able to make copied of my original USB drive, and no backups. I can see all the files on my old USB drive when plugging it into my Windows computer, but it's not letting me copy any of the files.
I downloaded the latest Unraid and installed on a new USB drive using the USB creator tool. I was able to boot up my new machine
On the Wiki instructions I came across this note:
"To ensure no data loss after the server is booted, you will need to make sure you assign each disk to the array / cache exactly as it was prior to the failure. If you do not know which disks were assigned where, create a post in the forum for further assistance."
I do not remember exactly how the drives were set up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to lose all my files.
Currently I have two USB drives;
- Old USB drive = seems to be corupted
- New USB drive = I have Unraid installed on it, but have not yet transferred my Registration Key to the new USB drive yet.
Should I go ahead and transfer my registration to the new USB drive, and get that plugged into my Unraid computer?
I'm confused how I should set things up after that to a way where I will not lose all the files on my hard drives.