If I am still seeing an amber flashing dot and a red number 1 in Airport Utility, what does that mean?
I bought a second-hand Airport 2TB external NAS drive and decided once I had initially switched it on to make sure it was working (as I saw a small written note on the internal box that the seller had written 'will not boot up) which immediately got my suspicions raised. So I went through the instructions from Apple online and did what it stated and then mistakenly started to let become a backup drive. I stopped and thought, hang on, I must make sure it is fully and completely erased now, so I opted for the 35-pass erase option. Which I thought was going okay until I had to restart my machine for something else and doing that interrupted the erase process, the next thing I now see, as it was counting through the erase numbers before, was just a flashing orange dot in the Airport Utility and a red dot with the number one inside. I have included screenshots and the Airport drive is also showing a flashing orange LED on the front.
Please help me, I am technical but I am still learning about how my Apple products work to be honest.
Neil
AirPort