RE: Windows Home Server - jesus!

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup - t'was one of the first things I tried...

:-(

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Rob Iles
> Sent: 15 December 2008 23:28
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Windows Home Server - jesus!
>
> 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
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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