Seagate ST2000VM003 Network Drive

enfield_freddy

I feer I am struggling to get the required info expressed over to you ,


forget your PC and its ability to boot , it does boot without a hard drive , yup as far as its bios screen THEN looks for an operating system.


nas drive , are drives in a enclose with its own minicture computer built into it, when it boots it reads its own memory chip and starts a basic program that allows you to access the one or more drives connected to it.


why not unplug it , remove the drive then restart it and try and access it from windows?


one of the pages on that screen or the install cd will walk you thru setting the drives (if you have 2) as raid , and formatting the new drive(s)

r2015

why not unplug it , remove the drive then restart it and try and access it from windows?

Might break something?

I think I've got it, the software is in the enclosure, not the drive so all I need to do is put a formatted 4TB drive in the enclosure and it should all work.

It takes a little while for it to penetrate my 70 year old brain.

enfield_freddy

ok , I think you are getting it now , please cherck that the drive will accept a 4tb drive , 4tb is a recent new development , prior to this most had a max of 2tb , and you stated yours was a few yrs old , the drive will not need to be formatted , as previously stated it will be reformatted in a Linux type system


fightsback listed a driver to allow you to read the files on the old drive when you remove it ,


good luck

Fightsback

r2015 wrote: »

Might break something?

I think I've got it, the software is in the enclosure, not the drive so all I need to do is put a formatted 4TB drive in the enclosure and it should all work.

It takes a little while for it to penetrate my 70 year old brain.

No need to pre-format it as it uses a Linux file system called Ext4 and not the windows NTFS/FAT32. It should format itself.

Fightsback

enfield_freddy wrote: »

fightsback listed a driver to allow you to read the files on the old drive when you remove it ,


good luck

The windows Ext driver probably won't work as the drive is weirdly formatted using 64kb blocks as opposed to the normal 4kb blocks. Most likely have to use the method in the links I listed above.