Quickblood

All up and running now. Takes time but the whole thing went pretty smoothly with the new motherboard. Thanks again.

Have you run the New Permissions Utility? Also, root user does not have network access to shares in unRAID 5 and above. I read about the user issue but no I haven't done either yet, do I need to wait for Parity sync to complete before doing that? Plus what about the shares, can I copy over my old flash\config\shares to the USB stick?

Thanks for all your help chaps. I decided to pick up a new motherboard as I saw an Abit AB9 Pro for sale and it was very cheap and has 9 SATA ports. Anyway this Motherboard doesn't have any issues with my USB stick and the Parity synch is in progress. Only issue now is how do I get access to my files as Windows says I don't have permission but I'm sure that's a relatively simple solution.

Tried it and got this. Anyway I'm back to work tomorrow so no more time for this at the moment & I think I'll just have to accept that everything seems to work but just not together. Anyway thanks for your help chaps.

Can't be as I mentioned earlier not only did I check it in the BIOS but on my motherboard you press F8 you get a list of devices and you select the one you want to boot from and that's what I've been doing. I'll try and post pics later.

I dunno perhaps I'm not explaining my problem well. Anyway I know how to make a bootable Unraid USB stick and I also pretty much what it should look like when its running. My Unraid server suddenly took a disliking to it's USB drive. As kindly instructed by garycase in order to upgrade I used unRAIDServer-5.0.5-i386 and would have done a clean install but when I tried I got this But when I try the same USB drive in my main PC, it works fine. Does that make sense? To make things even stranger when I used my Lexar 16GB USB drive instead with unRAIDServer-5.0.5-i386, It works on both PCs, unfortunately that's not the one I registered years ago Also at one point last night my back-up of 4.7 also wasn't working & at that point I almost threw the whole thing out the window but for some reason it is magically OK now, so calm has returned.

Sorry but was very annoyed. As mentioned I've done that several times now. Even tried normal format instead of Quick one, tried Fat instead of FAT32 nothing worked. They're permanently connected. I double checked the BIOS & just to make sure it's booting from the correct drive I'm manually selecting it from the boot menu.

Well I've spent some time playing about with it and I don't know what's happened. I had a 16GB Windows 7 USB drive and that works in the Unraid Server so I thought let me format that put Unraid on it and see if it'll boot and yeah it does work. So I then took the original drive that now keeps getting a boot error and tried it a few more times with Unraid my 4.7 backup & the new 5.0.5 with no joy. I don't know what the hell happened there but it just won't work. I then tried the same drive with Memtest - Auto-installer for USB Keys and I didn't think that'd work but it does. So here I have a usb drive that seems to work perfectly but my Unraid server will not read it if it has Unraid on it.

Yup I've done all that and it just doesn't like the USB anymore. Just tried it again in my main PC and it happily goes into unraid, tried my Windows USB in the unraid PC and that works too. I'm incandescent with rage right now, I knew there was a good chance I'd mess it up but for the bloomin' hardware to just randomly decide not to work together is just gutting. It's probably gonna take me hours and cost me money just to get back to where I started now, why did I bother.

The worst case scenario kinda happened. I tried the new config 5.0.5 install and that wouldn't boot so I thought fine I give up let me just go back to 4.7 but now that won't boot either. Tried the USB drive in my main PC & it works fine so god knows what's happening. Disk Boot failure is displayed now whatever I do. Working for bloody years and now because I dared to try an upgrade it's gone to crap.

Great now it won't boot from the USB at all. I knew I'd regret starting this.

Thanks for the advice chaps, will try out your suggestions later tonight. Anyway I did the parity check and it's fine and to begin with tried 5.0.5 again but same problem.

Yeah I have a clean backup and am using it now, everything is Ok in 4.7 but when I start 5.0.5 even though they're in the same order 2 disks are wrong for some reason? anyway I need to move some files so I'll do a parity check overnight and try this again a bit later.

Anyone know what's gone on here, why are these two drives wrong now? I always think I'm pretty OK with computers but I always find Unraid a bit confusing. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong again here but what this time?

Thank you, I knew it'd be simple and of course I'm an idiot and missed an important bit lol. Cheers. Yeah good point. A while a back I bought a keyboard, PCi-graphics card and leave it connected to my Monitor just to occasionally make sure everything is OK.

No I'm still on 4.7 and want to upgrade. I assumed the instructions were a step by step process of how you move from 4.7 or other earlier versions to the latest stable release but I'm confused cause it makes you do a load of stuff and then at the bottom of the page which I would have thought would be the final step it makes you format your USB thus surely undoing everything you just did. Maybe it's just cause I'm tired but that's a bit confusing.

I don't really understand how to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0.5. Following these instructions I backed up my flash drive then deleted config/passwd & config/smbpasswd, config/shadow wasn't present. I then restarted my server and it was up and running I didn't get "Stopped. Configuration valid." At what point do I download the new version and use it. Cause it seems like a do a lot of stuff that will ultimately end up being wiped when as instructed at the bottom of the page, I format my USB stick so why am I doing this if it'll be deleted, what am I missing?

Yeah in my googling I found someone with the exact same problem. Put the flash drive in my PC and scanned and fixed now everything seems ok. Doing a parity check again but I assume I'll be OK. Thanks!

Here's my syslog if anyone understands this syslog.txt

Planning on doing that to make sure the new ram is OK but I don't think that's the problem. I just saw a message about a read only file system. I think I have to do a Check Disk Filesystems thing I goggled this morning. I guess I'll have to sort this out of my day off as this looks complicated

Got some new ram, got access through browser, did a parity check and then tried to get to the files on my Windows 7 PC and I cannot. What's all this about?

Yeah I've already bought 4GB of DDR2, it's used so it's a bit of a risk but it's less than half the price of new RAM so fingers crossed.

I wasn't buying 8GB DRR3 for my server just using that as an example of what I paid for the RAM in my main PC and I'm using DDR2 in my Server which is fairly expensive.

True still stings a bit I think I paid £25 for 8GB of DDR3 but now I could pay little more than that for 2GB DDR2 :'(

Of course it didn't happen when DDR2 ram is dirt cheap and I'm pretty sure I don't have a spare lying around. Cheers folks.