As I had mentioned in my previous posting I have started to have a lot of issues with my Netgear SC101 NAS. When I first purchased it and added it my network I was really happy with the device. But then I had partitions start to disappear and they where not easily restored and became a time sink.
I recently had to replace my motherboard, the hard drive controller stopped working on my old one. Anyway I picked up an ASUS P5K that has a raid controller for the IDE ports. Due to all of the issues I have been having with the Netgear SC101 I decided I was just going to remove the drives from unit and install them in my main system as a mirrored pair.
Everything worked fine, took about 20 minutes to mount the drives and setup the mirror. I like having a clean computer so I decided to remove the software that you have to install, Netgear Storage Control Manger (SCM) in order to use the SC101. I don’t like having extra software floating around that is not doing anything let along drivers. The uninstall requested a reboot which did not bother me. I was doing this remotely, connected to my computer using RDP, so I was not terrible concerned when I could not reconnect to my computer. I though maybe it just did a shut down rather then a reboot, annoying but not the end of the world.
Anyway when I got home I went to boot my computer and as soon as it go to the loading windows screen the computer would reboot. When I told the computer to boot into safe mode the computer would blue screen. I tried to recover the install by having windows do a repair on the install and still the computer would not boot. I finally had to reinstall windows.
So yup basically uninstalling Netgear’s crappy driver package destroyed my Windows XP install and required me to spend the next 6 hours over two days rebuilding my install. Needless to say I am now completely not impressed with Netgear, not only was the SC101 horrible but removing it force me to reinstall windows. Needless to say I will never be buying another Netgear product or recommending tit to people.
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