Hi,

 

During a recent house move I have 'misplaced' the usb for my server. Stupid I know.

Can I just format a new one and plug it into the server and re id all drives? Or is it going to be a pain in the ****?

 

Cheers

Are you really on V6? You have posted in the V6 area, but your most recent post is over 3 years ago in V5 or older.

 

Well,

Since the usb is lost. I thought that it may be possible to basically start again with V6.

The data should be on the drives and fine, so hopefully reboot with a new usb on V6, point it in the right direction and let the software re id drives and information.

 

Or have I got it completely wrong??

 

 

Well,

Since the usb is lost. I thought that it may be possible to basically start again with V6.

The data should be on the drives and fine, so hopefully reboot with a new usb on V6, point it in the right direction and let the software re id drives and information.

 

Or have I got it completely wrong??

The unRAID license key is tied to the USB device?    If you had a paid for license then you are likely to have to contact Limetech to get a license for the new USB device once you have installed unRAID on it and booted to get its GUID.    If you used the free license, then this is no longer available with v6 (the closest is the free time-limited Trial license).

After you have gotten a replacement (or activated a Trial key), you can do this to get things working again.

 

Basically, you want to assign all drives as data drives then start the array.  One (AND ONLY ONE) drive will be unformatted.  (DO NOT FORMAT ANY DRIVES.  IF TWO DRIVES ARE UNFORMATTED, STOP AND ASK FOR HELP!!!)  If you have only one unformatted drive, that is your Parity Drive.  Stop the array and assign it as the Parity drive.  Now start the array again. 

 

If you know which drives (by their serial numbers) were the parity and the data drives, you can skip the first step and assign everything properly. Then start the array.

 

You would properly be best served to run the new permission script next.    'Tools'  >>>  'New Permissions'

 

Hopefully, you will have a working server at this point.  I would then run a Parity Check. 

Thanks for the advice.

There are three drives in the server, so it should be obvious which one is the parity drive.

I had  the full version/ key so I'll get in touch with Limetech to see what the story is.

 

Cheers

Here is a link to the LimeTech site that discusses key replacement:

 

    https://lime-technology.com/replace-key/

I received a new trial key and installed to the usb.

Stepped through the steps via gui and all was going well.

To id my parity drive i allocated all drives as data, as suggested, then went to start the array.

i couldn't due to 'invalid, missing or expired reg key.

 

I did as per instructions, registered and received the email. Copied the url into the box and clicked install key.

i have also tried manually inserting the key into the config file on the usb. Nothing.

 

I cant request a new key as this one hasn't expired.

Stuck.

 

Suggestions please

First thing to check is that the date/time is correctly set in your motherboard's bios setup .... I think if that is incorrect then the license will be coincided invalid/expired.

Brilliant, thanks

 

time zone changes hadn't been applied.

 

Thx

Sorry to keep asking but next issue:

 

Having assigned all my disks as data to id the parity drive, which worked, i then try to reassign the drive to parity slot which I can. Then I have message Disk 3 missing (because I moved it to parity) and am unable to start the array due to the missing disk.

 

How can I clear the missing disk from disk 3 slot? Clicking no device doesn't work.

 

Logan

Tools -> New config

 

You'll have to reassign all disks.

Thank you very much!

 

Now just waiting for the parity rebuild to do its thing, fingers crossed.