February 16, 20197 yr I shut down my UnRaid box and when I tried booting it after it just says "Reboot and select proper boot device". It was working just fine before powering it down. I am at a loss for how to troubleshoot this. In the Bios it sees the USB drive and it is the first boot option. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
February 16, 20197 yr Author 1 minute ago, trurl said: Put the flash in your PC and make sure you can read it there. I tried putting it in my windows 10 machine and it said
February 16, 20197 yr Author 14 minutes ago, trurl said: Do you have a backup of your flash drive? No All I have a backup is my key. Edited February 16, 20197 yr by TBJr
February 16, 20197 yr Community Expert Do you have a copy of your license .key file? Do you know what your disk assignments were? A screenshot, a syslog or diagnostic that we might look at to get your disks assigned as before? It is especially important that you not accidentally assign a disk with data on it to a parity slot.
February 16, 20197 yr Author 2 minutes ago, trurl said: Do you have a copy of your license .key file? Do you know what your disk assignments were? A screenshot, a syslog or diagnostic that we might look at to get your disks assigned as before? It is especially important that you not accidentally assign a disk with data on it to a parity slot. I have a backup of my .key file. I know which drive is the parity drive but to not know the exact assignments of the others.
February 16, 20197 yr Author Just now, trurl said: Do you have any cache drives? No. I have 4 2TB HDDs with one set as parity.
February 16, 20197 yr Community Expert Try to format that original flash drive and see if you can use it for a new install. The license .key file goes in the config folder. If not, you will have to do a new install on a new flash drive with the old license. Transferring the license will be easy. Your data should be fine but you will have to setup everything again.
February 16, 20197 yr Author 2 minutes ago, trurl said: Try to format that original flash drive and see if you can use it for a new install. The license .key file goes in the config folder. If not, you will have to do a new install on a new flash drive with the old license. Transferring the license will be easy. Your data should be fine but you will have to setup everything again. Windows was unable to format the USB drive. Does that imply it is dead?
February 16, 20197 yr Community Expert 3 minutes ago, TBJr said: Windows was unable to format the USB drive. Does that imply it is dead? yes
February 16, 20197 yr Author 2 minutes ago, trurl said: yes I used the USB Creator to make a new USB. I copied my .key file into the config folder. Is there anything else I need to do?
February 16, 20197 yr Community Expert Boot up. The new install doesn't know anything about your previous setup, so you will have to set it all up again. Go to Tools - Registration to get a new key for the new flash. Assign only your data disks and start the array to check your data. If it offers to format anything, don't do it.
February 16, 20197 yr Author 4 minutes ago, trurl said: Boot up. The new install doesn't know anything about your previous setup, so you will have to set it all up again. Go to Tools - Registration to get a new key for the new flash. Assign only your data disks and start the array to check your data. If it offers to format anything, don't do it. You are a hero. I was able to assign the data drives, it did NOT ask to format, and it looks like all my shares and data are there. Are there any other steps I should take to confirm that I do not lose any data?
February 16, 20197 yr Community Expert If all the disks look like they have data on them you should be good. Assign parity and let it resync. You can download a zipped backup of flash at any time at Main - Boot Device - Flash - Flash Backup
February 16, 20197 yr Author 6 minutes ago, trurl said: If all the disks look like they have data on them you should be good. Assign parity and let it resync. You can download a zipped backup of flash at any time at Main - Boot Device - Flash - Flash Backup Thank you for all of your help. You really did save my day.
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