I am running unRaid 4.5.6

I powered down my server the other day when we lost power.  The server is on a UPS and I was able to shut it down normally.  The issue I am having now is that when I start the server, I keep getting an error that the system is unable to enumerate the USB drive on port 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

 

I cannot access the server from the web gui at all.

 

I copied off the contents of the drive, re-formatted it, ran the syslinux utility and copied the contents back over.  Tried to boot the server and got the same messages again.

 

I then plugged the USB drive in to my laptop and tried to boot again.  Once again, I received the unable to enumerate drive errors.

 

I can see the contents of the entire drive in Windows and can navigate the drive without any issues or errors.

 

I do not currently have another drive of this type (SanDisk Cruzer Mini 2gb), so if the drive is bad, I will need to buy a new one.

 

Any suggestions?  I cannot even tell if my data is good other than the fact that the bios recognizes all of the drives.

 

EDIT: The USB drive is recognized, it goes through BZIMAGE and BZROOT and I get a login.  Very little will work after this except some network commands like ifconfig.

Last night I tried to run off a syslog, but I cannot seem to get the file to generate.

 

I have ordered a few more USB drives off of the recommended list, so my question is this; Can I install a new version of 4.5.6 on to the new drive, in trial mode, and test the system?  Will this cause any damage as I have 10 drives (8 data, plus parity, plus cache) and the trial version only accesses 3 drives?  Is there anything special I should do to the new drive like copy over the shares folder, smbpassword, etc?

 

I want to test out the drive, but not at the expnense of losing all of my data.

 

Thank you!!

After reading another post, it appears that my issue was a bad USB drive.  I bought a new SanDisk Cruzer, transferred the files and made it bootable.  Worked like a charm.  The system boots, I get the management console and now I just need to obtain a new key.