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Originally Posted by fffil
Hi all, just registered here today after having issues with a 4400 I've just brought on line. I can only get to the recovery console and no further. I have a second 4400 which boots and runs fine (both are 480GB). I want to use the procedure in this thread to use the good 4400 to resurrect the 'dead' 4400 but want to get it straight in my head before I potentially wreck the good one. The good one has a lot of data I need to keep!
Please would you confirm if this is correct
1. With both units powered down, take the left most disk (as you face the front) out of the good 4400 unit and insert it as the only disk in the bad 4400.
2. Take any of the bad 4400 disks and insert to the right of the 1st disk in position 2.
3. Switch on and log into the web portal (10.10.10.10)
4. Then what??? Power down again?
5. Remove both disks, put disk 1 back into good 4400 (original position) and put disk 2 into disk 1 position in the bad 4400.
6. Boot? or place remaining 3 disks into bad 4400 and boot?
7. If boot (with one disk) can I insert the other 3 disks when the unit is powered up? and do I insert them one at a time and wait for the unit to synchronise before inserting the next?
As you can see, I've so many questions but have already read a lot of the posts on here.
As far as I can tell, the OS of both is/was 2.6.050 - can I upgrade to any other OS outside of a software contract?
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If your getting into the recovery console just do a clean install with the GSU.
It's best not to have a RAID when doing this, with AV and BU not installed other wise it will report a broken raid.
In step 4, the HD (2) needs to be clean, so do a quick format. During a cold boot process the OS will see the blank HD and installs the OS. If you watch the HD LED on drive 2 you will see activity some where past the 5 min mark. It only take about 15 sec on a 4500 to setup the new HD. You can also login and check the drive status too.
Then remove the original and rotate drive 2 to 1 position. boot, the hot swap the remaining HD's.
In most cases you will be required a service contract to get the OS. You can get the OS only if you know a rep that will sell it to you. >$600USD.