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Interesting idea, Jorge. What I learned first of all is that the Unraid USB Creator doesn't make the USB drive bootable. <grrr> After wasting an hour or more trying four different USB drives and three different ports on my PC, I finally stumbled upon "make_bootable.bat". Now that I'm past that hurdle, I see that my original USB will boot just fine with the new config folder, but with my saved config folder the boot continues to hang at the exact same spot. I guess that means there is some setting in there that's completely tripping up Unraid. It also means that as a last resort I can rebuild Tower from scratch, since my data are all on the rotating disk. But, of course, I'd really like to just get my original config working.

I opened up my PC case and took out two unused drives and added in two new drives which I intend to use as (mirrored) cache. Unraid would not boot, so I took out the two new SDDs. At this point my system should be identical to what it was before, with the exception of the removal of those two unused drives. Unraid will no longer boot. I've tried with and without the GUI and with and without Safe Mode. It gets as far as "sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Preferred minimum I/O size 4096 bytes" and then appears to just hang. I really don't know how to debug this. I made a bootable Ubuntu USB and booted that up; the hardware all appears to be fine. Ubuntu found my two 4TB Array drives and my two 256MB Cache drives. Any suggestions for next steps would be most welcome.

It seems strange, doesn't it? This is labeled "Connect Plugin Support", but it seems to be completely unsupported. 😞

I'm seeing the same issue. Tried uninstalling/re-installing Connect, and tried rebooting Tower. Neither action made any difference.

Trurl, you're a genius. Yes I can see, for instance, DISK_ASSIGNMENTS.txt -- I'll bet that's useful, huh? It's weird that both Unraid and Window says the flash drive is bad, but I seem to be able to read it. I won't complain -- I'll just copy the data I need.

Yup, thank you -- I'm reading that now.

Yes, it would appear that I have successfully replaced the key. I got a new email with a new URL, which I copied and pasted into Tower, and it appears to be happy (no red errors in the upper right corner)

Thanks again, trurl. I should have checked my old emails first (in my defense, I didn't even remember what I was looking for). Now to see if the various readme's can help me with my disk assignments, etc.

Thank you for the quick response, trurl. I've found the five year old email with the order confirmation, but that doesn't contain the key. I also seem to be able to access the "dead" USB drive, and I see a file in /config named Basic.key. Honestly, I don't even remember what I'm looking for. A URL? A SHA256 key? Yes, I have the key!

I'm not sure how badly I've screwed up, but my USB stick apparently died (w/o backup, of course). I've purchased a new USB stick, installed Unraid, pluged it in to my server, and rebooted. But rather than going to Tools -> Registration and hitting Replace Key, I clicked on Trial. Now I don't have a "replace key" option, and I don't know how to proceed. Do I need to buy a new USB stick and start over? I'll probably have other questions after I get past this, but the first thing I need to do is to get my key onto that flash drive.

Thank you, Squid. I don't understand why, but the reboot fixed the problem.

I'm unable to update from 6.8.3 to 6.9.2 via the GUI. I consistently get What's the problem here, and how can I fix it? I'm not sure if this is the proper forum or thread; kindly direct me if I should post this elsewhere.