Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

["Rob Heyes" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What a pain! However, the drives *should* just be in plain NTFS format
and readable on another PC.

The WHS forums are usually pretty helpful though.

Rob

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
> 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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