EasyStore Issues

ellford

I have an old Acer EasyStore NAS box and recently it's dropped off my network and I cannot connect to it.

No drive lights come on when the unit boots up.
The network port on the back is green and amber and on the front of the unit the network light is on, indicating it's "on" the network.
My Asus router shows it on the list of connected devices under IP 192.168.50.36 (my range on my router is (192.168.50.1 - I'm wondering if this might be the issue, even though it's worked fine before)
The front Hard Drive light is on (blue).
The front I light blinks blue.

I've pulled all drives out of the unit except for the first drive with the server O/S on it and the same thing happens.

I've tried doing a server restore by using the paperclip as referenced in the manual, but the software gives me an error saying "cannot find server" and exits.

Acer indicates using a USB diagnostic utility called ANNIE.GHO, which they don't publish for downloading anywhere (lovely).  

I'm completely at my wits end with this thing.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  

Thanks,

ellford

FYI thanks to the great help and support here, I was able to solve all of this.

Main hard drive failed with the O/S
Installed Windows Home Server 2011 on a new HD
Backed up DATA hard drives using imaging software
Recovered all of my data

Love to tell you how I did it, but it took weeks of work trying to piece together snippets from about a dozen forums.

Whew!