PLEASE Could someone, anyone help me? I am desperate

[Captainfingerbang]

i'm not a NOOB, but im a re-Noob, haven't been around in long time.

i have two 918+ 1.04b with identical 1151 coffee lake parts I've been running for 3 years. Have real serial #'s btw. 

HW: Gigabyte B360 HD3 + i3-8100      DSM 6.2.3-25426 

i needed to combine both of these 918+ nas's together for many reasons.

 i backed up the 4tb shr 3x 4tb to a single 8tb drive BASIC array. formatted the three 4tb drives and moved them all into one giant big case together with other 918.  ALSO, i installed 2 pcie 3.0 x1 - 4 port sata III cards total 8 new sata ports for ssd arrays. Installed 2 of these cards.....

Some ******* happened though. Bios got screwed up, had to reset it, forgot values, so i updated the bios anyways since it was 2 yrs old and put values i could remember in bios.

• WEIRD STUFF started happening. Everything seriously slowed down, from network to disk transfer speeds.
• The MAIN issue i am having is all of a sudden when i try to SSH into NAS with both admin credentials I get PERMISSION DENIED SEE IMAGE BELOW..
• Now i am wanting to know if there is a SAFE PROCESS to reinstall DSM but keep all 20Terabytes of my best data. Is there?

Things I've tried:

I made sure and both logins are under admin. I rebooted a lot, tweaked bios, delete the registry entry in windows for saved Putty credentials.

 

 

Edited August 31, 2022 by Captainfingerbang

[kekesed97]

you're using jun's bootloader. just enter "reinstall" bootentry and do reinstallation. or you can edit your grub bootloader (press "e" for one time use on grub bootloader) and add force_junior. this will force reinstall the DSM while keeping your data partition intact

Edited September 1, 2022 by kekesed97