Zyxel NSA-221 setup help?!

orangeman2003 · 22 Apr 2012 at 09:38

Maybe the NAS drive cannot do what i want but basicly ive got a 2TB already inside it and i want to share whats already on the HDD but i cannot seem to find the option to do this?! All i can see is i have to run the setup wizzard which means it will format the drive.

Does anyone have any ideas if i can share folders on the drive via the NAS without having to go buy another 2TB drive and copying it over the netowrk?

Many thanks!

now going through tthis manual - ftp://ftp.zyxel.com/NSA221/user_guide/NSA221_v4_ed1.pdf

beastman · 8 May 2012 at 19:18

did you suss this out fella?

only asking as I'm going to have a go at mine soon.

orangeman2003 · 8 May 2012 at 20:56

no m8

i bought another hdd and just transferred it all over

geuben · 8 May 2012 at 21:00

It's down to file systems. It's likely that your hard drive is formatted in NTFS, these NAS will probably required EXT2 or similar so the drive will need to be reformatted before it can be used.

beastman · 8 May 2012 at 22:00

geuben said:
It's down to file systems. It's likely that your hard drive is formatted in NTFS, these NAS will probably required EXT2 or similar so the drive will need to be reformatted before it can be used.

thanks -......aha I think I see - presumably then you originally put in a drive with files already on it and thats why you couldn't doing any sharing as I assume you would normally put in a blank drive or two and then the NAS formats it ready for use and sharing etc?