I never thought I'd be able to fix the NAS. I upgraded my NAS with a new one and thought of selling it so naturally I properly wiped the drives and did a firmware reset. Only when I came to look at it I knew something was wrong. It did did take me a while even with watching the video to fix it. The step were you deleted the partitions on your harddrive, I'd left a partition that the disk management wouldn't get rid of. I used the free version of EaseUS Partition Master to get rid of the partition and then checked it on the disk management to see that it looked the same in the video. If you don't do this the drive won't format and you get an error when running the firmware updater program. Great tutorial and I'd advise watching every step to make sure you don't go wrong. Its very nice of buffalo to make something a complete nightmare if you accidently wipe the disks or you don't have raid 5 setup to back harddrive 1 up.

Now in 2024 and you still helping peaple like me. Thanks a lot. I just resurrected my old LS-WSX NAS.

Lifesaver. I’ve had a brick of a linkstation sat round for ages. One issue I had was tftp wasn’t saving its changes. Ran as administrator and everything worked as advertised. Thanks

Great video - thank you. The firmware linked in the description didn't help with my Japanese model LS-WX2.0TL/J but once I'd downloaded the official FW from the Japanese Buffalo site the methodology demonstrated was the same. For any who may be struggling my tips would be run the TFTPd as Administrator, and (as outlined in video) use a switch (or crossover cable). I had neither but after a few failed tries with a single cable, connecting two cables together with a dollar store female-female RJ45 extender all turned out well! The copying, renaming, zipping and unzipping of initrd and uImage files may need different passwords depending on the firmware you need for your device but it seems there are only four passwords in use (search the Buffalo forums) and then trial and error them.

Absolutely brilliant! Restored my defunct LS-WXL NAS to full working order. However mine did not reload the 2 files again like yours did. Also it took nearly an hour to format the 1Tb hard drives in RAID 0 before rebooting and starting normally. Thanks for posting. 👍

Simon Hayter...... you are amazing.... excellent for very brief tutorial/guide. You just saved my Buffalo NAS LS-WX 2TB. Loved to do it. Just great. Thank you.

now in 2023 and You still helping people like me. Tnaks

Many thanks Simon, it worked just fine and saved my Linkstation from the trashcan! Great work!

You almost lost me at "DCHP" @8:40 Glad I stuck with it! Worked a treat

Thankyou so much for this video, my NAS broke before you had released this video and i could not get it going and i just found it in the cupboard. its all working again now, thankyou so much for this.

Great job - many thanks. A few hiccups along the way but got there in the end!

Thanks for your help, honestly thought the unit was knackered.

Made my day!! Worked like magic!! Thanks a lot for this video!!

Excellent tutorial...had some troubles in the beginning...what helped was: - TFTP tool needs to be started in admin mode if it doesn't save the settings (as you need to restart it to apply the settings this is important. Is not necessary if you use the oirtable version of the tool I guess) - Deactivated the firewall of Norton (don't know if this was necessary) - Touched the button on my linkstation live (I think this was the most important step which I missed) Possible I missed the first and last step in your video or the last step doesn't apply on your slightly different NAS.

Thanks a lot! Great job! Very useful. Saved my linkstation.

great tutorial! It worked like a charm, kudos!!!

Nie wiem jak to robisz, ale uratowałeś mojego Buffalo przed śmietnikiem, dziękuje :)

Outstanding - worked like a charm! Thank you!

thanks! works olso with my LinkStation Live (LS-CHL) , put a 500GB SSD in mine.

Thanks! Great video. Very helpful. One question - can I use any size hard drive as a replacement? The buffalo website has a list of recommended hard drives, do I have to stay with one of those? My LS-X2.0tl originally had a 2TB drive. Do I have to stay at that size, or during the re-format, will any size, any drive work?

You also could re install firmware which I did that resolved my blue flashing light, using linkstation updater and opening in debug mode and reflashing firmware . worked for me thanks for video

Thank you very much! You really helped this video!

thank you

Thanks, Bro! Congratulations!!!

thanks a lot!, it really helped

Thanks!

Hi, after help of possible? I have the X1.0TL-EU, I haven't used it for over 5yr so forgot login details. I only want the drive to show up as a network drive. I'm not interested in the web access option. I can access the files using the 'twonky website' but I don't want to use that as file manager is so much simpler looking. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello Mate, it is very helpful and i was saved one of the NAS, but i have a problem with LS-WX2.0TL/R1-EU. The NAS received two files and show IP address, but he show on NAS Navigator 2 like UNINSPECT-EM136 and LSUpdater won't found it. Where is the problem and can you help me. Thanks

Does this fix save data on raid 5 or if buffalo blinking blue led data is lost?

Good video but replace your power supply first. I had the flashing blue light and it turned out that the power supply wasn't putting out enough power to run two drives. I pulled one drive and it booted with two it just flashed the blue light. Replaced the power supply and it's back up on two drives.

can i use this for LinkStation Duo - LS-WX2.0TL/R1?

i have a linkstation quad and cand fix this flshing light eroor

Thank you Very Very much!!! pickt up a baffle at the eleectronik waste and it fucking worked again! :-*

tengo un problema con un terastation no puedeo entrar con la direcion que tiene a la web si me pude ayudar pues por este medio me puede contactar

Thans for the guide. I have a question: with LS-WXL the procedure is the same? I try this but with the firmware from buffalo website cannot put your password to extract the file initrd.zip. Where i can find this? Thank you so much!

Questions: 1. My LS-XL has firmware 1.74 already and it is the latest. Can I "update" it with the same firmware and get into debug to partiiton? 2. Are you saying that the webserver portion on the NAS needs to be re-built to the new hard drive in order to format it? 3. What if I want to replace the hard drive of a working ls-xl? Do I still need to flash the firmware or could I just put a drive in my case? 4. Tftp is not running on my NAS. How do I get it to run to accept the file transfer?

i cant not convert .zip help please im work on win 10. thank you.

This method don't work on LS-WXL. When use same option on TFTP NAS don't update adress from DHCP. Only then don't tick option bind on DHCP then use DHCP but can't update adress.

Taking the drive out of the Buffalo is the most difficult thing and you miss that part out. I've spend nearly an hourly trying so far with no luck.

When I get to the step where you open LSUpdater.exe and i change the settings and click update I get " Format failed. Update aborted." Any suggestions?

Why is the DHCP not renewing?

Hola Simon, tengo un problema con la configuración, cuando se configura la ip estática y el TFTP en que momento se prende el disco duro, es que no me carga los archivos como aparece en el minuto @14:07 me puedes ayudar, o tendrás la guía completa, el link esta caído, gracias, saludos...

LSUpdater is not showing an option for debug mode what should I do?

Hello, I know next to nothing about networks but i'm trying to breath life into an old Buffalo LS-XL NAS. All was going well until i saved the settings in TFTP (about 13 minutes in to the video). I got this message: Tftpd32 Error 10049The requested address is not valid in its context. Tftpd32 tried to bind the tftp port to the interface 192.168.11.l which is not available for this host Either remove the tftp service or suppress 192.168.11.1 interface assignation. Now as I said I'm not super technical but I'll fill you on on the journey to get there... downloading, unzipping, renaming and moving files - fine. My desktop machine has wireless as well as wired internet so i unplugged the ethernet cable, connected to my home internet via wifi (so i could carry on watching the video and assigned the 192.168.11.1 address as per your instructions. i did notice that the server interfaces was not the same as yours so I changed it to 192.168.11.1 to be the same as yours. (Is this where I went wrong?). Anyway, as I saved the settings and got the message as above. I closed down TFTP and tried again but got the same message. Still I could make it go away so I ploughed anyway. When I connected the NAS with the power cable and the crossover lead the drop down box indicating the server interfaces blinked a lot and nothing happened on TFTP. A few messages did appear on the log server which I can share f you think they are relevant - the first was about a message being received on an unbound interface: 192.168.11.70. no idea what that all about. And so i'ts all come to a grinding halt. If you could offer a word of advice I'd be really grateful. If we could set up a zoom call or something I'd make sure there was a drink it for you.

I get this error: Tftpd32 Error 10049 The requested address is not valid in its context. Tftpd32 tried to bind the tftp port to the interface 192.168.11.l which is not available for this host Either remove the tftp service or suppress 192.168.11.1 interface assignation. Not Sure what I am doing wrong, any way of fixing this?

sounds like you were vaping also during the process of upgrade.... we could hear your atty...

Having to delete all your data is hardly a solution.

thanks a lot!, it really helped