Recovering A Buffalo Linkstation HS-DH750GL

I've a couple of these, one I bought new in 2009 and the second from eBay a couple of years later.

The power went off last night while I was out and when I came home a few things were upset (less than there used to be !) but my two Buffalo NAS units were offline.

I turned them back on, one came back no trouble, the other didn't want to come back online correctly.

I could ping it but no sign of the web interface.

A bit of Googling later I had downloaded Buffalo's NAS Navigator.

This showed one NAS as OK but the other as in "Emergency Mode".

I suspected that for some reason, the power failure had upset the firmware on the broken NAS

Further Googling led me to Buffalo's firmware updater tool.

I downloaded the version appropriate to the HS-DH750GL and it found the broken NAS.

I let it run but at reboot it seemed to fail and said that the update had failed.

I then power cycled the NAS from the front panel and to my relief and surprise it came back good.

Whatever the updater had done seemed to have fixed things.

If you come here with a similar problem I hope that this happens for you !

I'm now running my SyncToy backup to copy this NAS onto a Western Digital "MyCloud" which I bought to back up the two Buffalo units.