The USB Flash Drive must be a USB 2.0 flash drive (not USB 3.0).Ģ. The USB thumb drive should only be 16 or 32.īased on our USB compatibility tests, the following limitations have been found:ġ. Make sure both devices are on the same network.Ģ. Connect the PC and Sentinel to the same router/network. We would like to suggest you to perform a system recovery.ġ. Can you advise, how can I fix my issue ? Thanks in advanceĬounter issue during Step 16 - 17, when I go back my PC click Next system not found DX4000 server and DX4000 show 'Storage Bad'.īased on the error, it seems that the device is unable to boot up to its OS. I was follow those step, but DX4000 LCD screen show 'Storage Bad'. I was email to WD support team, they advised bought same model DX4000 and migrate 4 (2TB) drives into new DX4000. Initial my last DX4000 hardware failure, it keep restart when 'startup initiallzation'. If you have any questions on the Western Digital's DX4000, I'll give support on this box as long as I can until I have to return it. Now to try and break it with some Add-ins. ( This is similar to how it's done with the MediaSmart Server but the OS is on the USB stick instead of the PC.) That involves a similar process to the making the repair RAID USB stick, but you need a 8GB stick because it will hold the OS. It look 7 hours to rebuild the drives, OUCH that took a while. Then you will get some details from the LCD screen as to your progess. According to the pdf, you create a bootable USB stick <512 meg and boot off of that.
Since this box is headless, WD allows you to download a full copy of the OS that includes a few options. How do you do this with a headless box with no access to the BIOS or OS ?
Ok, so after refering to the pdf and getting a reply from an email to Western Digital ( thanks for that WD), I found out that I messed up the RAID array. So as the type of guy I am, break first, then read the instructions to find a fix, I turn to the User Manual, OK, so while putting the screws to this box, I successfully managed to kill it to a point where I was getting a "STORAGE BAD" error on the LCD display. So this post is not to say how Western Digital's product is flawed in some way. This also helps the community just in case you unfortunately find yourself with the same issue.
Let me start by saying that if you know me, I like to bang on my server until something breaks, and then figure out how to fix it. So, on the the nitty gritty of why I'm writing this post.
I'll also tweet when I do and discuss it on future podcasts. I'll write a few post on this in the future, so look for that. The DX4000 comes with the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials software. And that I should contact Western Digital to see if I can get a unit for review. I'll be updating this post as things change.Īs a Microsoft Windows Home Server MVP, a few months back, I found out from my Microsoft Team Leader that Western Digital would soon be releasing the DX4000 Small Office Storage Server.