I'll start off by saying I'm a total newbie to Unraid.

 

Recently I noticed my Unraid was unresponsive and it was failing to log in, at the GUI.  So, being upset with it I did a hard reset of the pc via the power supply.  When I went and powered up the pc, the normal boot screen of my bios didn't show up on my monitor.  After 20 minutes of waiting unraid failed to boot.  The share of unraid is just for file storage, I don't run any type of VMs  and some test docker apps that I never got to work.

 

My question is how safe is my data on the drives?  I have one 16gb flash as a boot, 2x8tb parity drives, 1x8tb cache and 6x6tb as storage.  If I create a new boot drive, will the data still be there? It's only storing some media for my plex server on another pc?  I'm feeling if I can get this to work I might have to switch back to a more stable based NAS software like TrueNAS.

16 minutes ago, mtdunphy said:

the normal boot screen of my bios didn't show up on my monitor.

Do you see the board BIOS but don't see the Unraid boot menu, or not even the board BIOS?

 

The data should be fine.

Neither show up. Black screen. No HDD activity.  I do have the tower-flash-backup-20231124-1657 from 11/24/2023.  Could I make a new boot drive and restore the flash save?

Edited January 30, 20242 yr by mtdunphy

That's not a flash drive problem, you first need to try and get the board to post.

I'm going to have to look at it further this weekend,  I do know the flash drive is unreadable on my windows pc, since it's formatted fat32.  The fresh boot drive I created is readable, that' why I asked.  But, yea, I'll have to dig deeper in the problem.

On 1/30/2024 at 7:44 AM, JorgeB said:

That's not a flash drive problem, you first need to try and get the board to post.

I went ahead and moved my drives and re-flashed a new USB drive, then attached everything to a spare SuperMirco Mobo and it posted.  Sadly it's an old backup of my config but the files are on the Array, now I'm waiting for parity to rebuild.