RE: Windows Home Server - jesus!

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I feel for you Phil - hope it gets sorted.

I'm just migrating a much smaller 1TB array from RAID0 to RAID5 on one of
my edit PC's - and that went wobbly at around 10% rebuild with the new
drive I added showing as not available. Just rebuilding again with fingers
crossed! Maybe there's something in the fog interfering with HDD's!!!

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 15 December 2008 23:39
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Windows Home Server - jesus!
>
> 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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