November 16, 20232 yr Hello. I have been an Unraid user for approximately 1 year. I've never had more serious problems, however, today I had a terrible surprise. My server didn't modify configuration files on the frontend, so I decided to reboot and see if that fixed it. To my disappointment, unraid no longer booted. On the bare metal preview screen I identify that the flash drive is in read-only state and there is nothing I can do to correct it. I turned off Unraid and removed the UFB flash drive to try a disk check in Windows. Once again the USB is in full Read Only status. Fortunately (I believed) I had made a backup last week, so I tried to put it on another USB drive, as the original was unusable. I then used Unraid USB Creator to generate the flash drive with my backup. However, Unraid did not start! It reported errors again and gave me a login screen with the name "Tower" without the possibility of typing anything using the keyboard. I'm a little desperate. Could anyone help me get through this? I know that the data must be preserved, but my settings, Shares, Dockers, Virtual Machines... I don't know how to recover them.
November 17, 20232 yr Community Expert If the backup is not working try recreating the flash drive from scratch, if you don't know the assignments see here: https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/changing-the-flash-device/#what-to-do-if-you-have-no-backup-and-do-not-know-your-disk-assignments
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