My Cloud, old…I keep setting network drives to it and my PC (desktop) keep losing the connection. The last time this happened, I rebooted the drive - took awhile, 30 minutes or so, and I set up a new user in the admin console. With that I was able to access my shares through drive assignment in Explorer. (Windows 11)
That was two weeks ago, This morning, my drives wouldn’t access the shares again, so I went to reboot the drive through the admin console. It’s now been running about 2 hours (blinking blue light) . The admin console won’t come up and even trying to delete the (now non-functional) network drives locks up Explorer and my desktop and I have to reboot my PC.
My router admin console sees the device and proper IP. I can hear the drive running. But the admin console won’t come up and the drive seems to be in perpetual reboot.
I have no doubt this is out of warranty. Accessing the data that resides on this drive (if it’s dead or terminal) is possible with a LOT of effort and expense (it’s spread over 3 old PC’s; fortunately I still have them all) , but if this thing will actually reboot successfully, eventually, I’d rather just stay with this.
Will I brick the thing if I power it off while it’s still in reboot mode? Or just let it keep going ? At what point (24 hrs ? next week ?, next September ?) do I wave the white flag and power cycle it?
It’s a 4TB drive, about 60% full.
Thx
