I'm getting this error again.. and now, I'm basically out of 'ideal thumb drives' for unraid

Your license key file is corrupted or missing. The key file should be located in the /config directory on your USB Flash boot device.

If you do not have a backup copy of your license key file you may attempt to recover your key.If this was an expired Trial installation, you may purchase a license key.

I DID run checkdisk on the thumb about 2 hours ago. The checkdisk was necessary. I have copies of the 'old thumb' both BEFORE and AFTER running checkdisk.

I also need to use a new thumb, I guess.

I see that I am SIX versions behind. I guess about a week ago, I logged in and the only option was 'upgrade automatically upon next reboot'. I don't WANT to run an upgrade right now.. but I need to find out why this thumb drive keeps corrupting.

I've gone through about 4+ thumb drives in the last 16 months. they 'keep corrupting'.

I did try the 'recover key' option, but it was hanging. I tried it twice. I'll go turn off my ublock origin (for sure) and try one more time

Nevermind, I'm in chrome and I don't have ublock here.

Yeah, so it tries to 'recover the key' and it redirects to THIS url (just the first part)

MY_UNRAID_IPv4/redirect?data=U2FsdGVkX18m2ZoiqvbKrgxX6l229hNQQ

I tried to recover 3 times now. I guess I need to use a new thumb drive. I don't have any good candidates for this right now, Most of my remaining thumb drives are USB 3.0 OR more than 32gb.

I have about a dozen 'spare thumb drives' mostly USB 3.0 AND larger than 32gb

Did the part about 'Microsoft increasing the size limits' for Fat32 have any effect on this?

I'm just happy that Checkdisk APPEARED to work. It allowed me to boot and the parity check ran for about 30-40 minutes before I came back into this tab, and I got the error (I tried to copy the OG error here)

PS - upon earlier power-on about 2.5 hours ago, it failed, and I could share the URL from THAT conversation.

I was talking to chatgpt. I tried to make a backup at the cli of my boot directory, but bash couldnt find the files I was trying to backup

NOW I just get a white-screen, and it doesn't give me the option to 'recover key' any longer :(

Please post the diagnostics.

17 hours ago, Near Portland said:

I've gone through about 4+ thumb drives in the last 16 months. they 'keep corrupting'.

Four drives in 16 months strongly suggests a selection issue rather than bad luck.

Before you pick another one of the same, search for eBay item number 326046070546 -- industrial grade USB drive, currently around $4.

Plug it into a USB 2.0 port on your motherboard.

It will serve you far better than anything you have.