February 27, 20233 yr I installed a new HDD today and when booting, the drive wasn't showing up in unassigned devices. I booted into BIOS to make sure the drive was being detected in my system and it was. Upon rebooting, I got an error that stated "failed to load ldlinux.c32". Ended up finding out my USB has died and that there isn't a backup available on "My Servers". I unfortunately do not have a backup anywhere else. What is the best solution here? I have grabbed a new USB and am attempting to put the same OS version I had before on it. Right now I have 4 HDDs (2 8TB and 2 6TB) and 1 SSD for cache. One 8TB was parity, the other was storage, and the two 6TBs were also storage. I'm not sure which drive by serial number was the parity drive. I've looked everywhere for a screenshot I may have taken of the main page but I can't find anything. I really do not want to lose my data. Any help would be appreciated.
February 27, 20233 yr Author I created a new USB and was able to identify which drive was my parity drive. Setting that as parity and my 3 other drives in the first 3 slots, I can start the array and it states "Start will start Parity-Sync and/or Data-Rebuild.". Is it okay to start the array at this point in time? All of my data are still on the 3 mountable drives, I'm just worried that they will get overwritten.
February 28, 20233 yr Solution Check "parity is already valid" near the array start button, and nothing should be overwritten. New config never overwrites data drive slots, only parity, and if you check the parity valid box, it won't even overwrite parity.
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