Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

["Rob Iles" <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

OUCH!

Daft Q, but have you tried removing the 2 new sata drives?

'fraid I've not played with WHS enough to be of any help here - but I do
wish you luck!

R.

2008/12/15 Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx>

>   Well, Rebuilt my server with Windows Home Server at the weekend,
have
> been
> copying data to it and adding new drives since Saturday and I have to
say
> that it has right royally f*ck*d up this evening .
>
> I have 4 x 1Tb drives set up on it so far with about 3Tb of data
copied
> over
> and for some reason this evening it has decided that two of the drives
are
> now to be labeled as "Missing" from the storage pool (but
listed as
> available but "Not Added"), a third 1Tb drive is still
listed as a member
> of
> the storage pool but its status is listed as "Not Added"
even though it is
> still shown as part of the storage pool. All the data that had been
copied
> to the server is now showing as having "file conflicts" and
there appears
> to
> be no way of getting WHS to re-add the drives (which it can still see)
back
> to the storage pool without erasing the drives first .
>
> . so as far as I can see that's about 350 movies gone as well as a
load of
> documents that *SHOULD* have been "safe" because they were
set up in a
> duplicated share under WHS and no obvious way to try to recover the
data
> from the drives. The drives don't appear to be in any sort of standard
> format so the chances of recovery using the usual suspects in the data
> recovery world are probably pretty slim and of course the file
structures
> are held separate to the files themselves so aside from still
appearing
> teasingly intact if you browse the network shares from a PC on the
network
> (but of course if you try to access anything it comes back with
"Access
> denied" because the file contents no longer exist) there's
nothing to work
> with on the supposedly "failed" drives in the way of a
roadmap of what
> files
> are what.
>
> As far as I can tell the catalyst for this event was my adding another
2 x
> 1Tb SATA drives to the server earlier this evening (not to the storage
> pool,
> just to the server itself) which should be OK to do as they're in hot
swap
> caddies.
>
> Well, I guess I'm now at the mercy of the WHS forums to see if I can
find
> anything that will help get WHS to play game and re-import the drives
that
> I
> know are there still otherwise I'm going to be *MIGHTY* p*ss*d off at
the
> loss of the documents which should have been safe and ye appear to
have
> been
> lost from drives which WHS seems to think have failed but that it
still
> sees!
>
> Grrrrrr.
>
> Phil
>
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>
>
>



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