Hi Gramps, thanks yep this has been ticking away since mid 2013 which I suppose is a good run - I have been looking at an ASUSTOR 4004 as a newer option…
For some reason I think the Re-create step just froze up… I crashed out of it and started the Recover step with the other USB drive.
I have btw edited the WHITELISTS and WHITELISTK xml files (to avoid the ‘Bad Storage’ error from the disks) - I found details of this in another thread on here :
Anyhoo it now says : ‘Recovery Started’ on the display… see how it goes