My usb stick got corrupted and no backups?

[alphateam]

Am I screwed?

 

[garycase]

"... and no backups ..."  ==>  It always amazes me how many folks run fault-tolerant servers (implying their data is important) and yet have no backups !!

 

... as for your question => Your data disks should be fine.  You can connect them to a Windows box and read the data with no problem using the free Linux Reader [ http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ ]

 

... or you can get a new flash drive and install UnRAID on it (buying the appropriate license so you can see all the drives)

 

[SlrG]

@alphateam,

Is the usb drive dead or only the data on the drive corrupted? In the latter case, just reformat the drive and reinstall unraid on it. When reassigning drives make sure to identify the correct parity drive.

Search the forum for detailed instructions.

 

If the usb drive is dead you normally don't need to buy a new license if you already own one. Just contact Limetech and ask Tom to transfer your license to the guid of your new usb drive.

 

[alphateam]

Ya just the data is corrupt on the drive....well at least I think so. Windows recognizes it and says it wants to format it. I'll try to reinstall on the usb stick. Thanks

[garycase]

You may have simple corrupted the flash drive => reformat it (be sure to label it UnRAID); then copy the UnRAID distribution to it; and then MakeBootable as an administrator and it should boot fine.

 

... if not, as noted above, Tom is pretty good about providing replacement keys when a flash drive fails.