tas1
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Hi. Can anyone help me? I am really concerned I may have lost the contents of the Storage Space I have created in Windows 8.
Having read an article by Woody Leonhard extolling the virtues of Storage Spaces and how it could take over from Windows Home Server,I began the transfer at the end of October. I started with 8 HDDs, most 1.5 or2Tb drives, but there were 2 @ 3Tb drives which I had been using elsewhere and which were already formatted as 2.72Tb. The transfer process was going well and I had got almost ¾ complete, with about 18Tb transferred on to the storage space based on a now grown pool of about 15 HDDs.
The Storage Space – it was on a “parity” basis- was “all green”, although I was often prompted to increase the number of HDDs as the transfer progressed and all new HDDs had been successfully assimilated (Borg like!). The problem arose when I tried to add a new 3Tb Seagate HDD. It was only recognised as 2Tb and so I attached it to my main PC and formatted it via GPT and got 2.72Tb showing. I then put the HDD in the Win8 machine and in “My Computer” it appeared as 2.72Tb. However, when I sought to add it to the Pool, the applet showed the HDD as being only 1.99Tb. Back in “My Computer” it confirmed the HDD was 2.72. I thought it might just be a minor bug in the applet and clicked to add the HDD to the pool, but having done so, the overall size of the Storage Space only increased by 2Tb, not the 2.72 I expected. I immediately hit the’ remove’ button before anything much could be written to the HDD and removed the HDD from the Pool. Storage Space repaired successfully.
I then rebooted the machine, but now Storage Spaces showed a red error and on looking at the info on the disks within the pool, the 2 previously good 3Tb HDDs are each shown as providing 2.72Tb pool capacity, but there is now a yellow warning triangle:”Warning Disconnected; reconnect drive”. Needless to say, there is no physical disconnection. And the Storage Space no longer appears in “My Computer”. When I look in the “Add drives” page, the two HDDs are shown as 2.72 unformatted and available to be added. However, I have not added them as I believe that doing so will wipe all of the data from them.
What should I do?? Advice most welcome. Thanks.
Having read an article by Woody Leonhard extolling the virtues of Storage Spaces and how it could take over from Windows Home Server,I began the transfer at the end of October. I started with 8 HDDs, most 1.5 or2Tb drives, but there were 2 @ 3Tb drives which I had been using elsewhere and which were already formatted as 2.72Tb. The transfer process was going well and I had got almost ¾ complete, with about 18Tb transferred on to the storage space based on a now grown pool of about 15 HDDs.
The Storage Space – it was on a “parity” basis- was “all green”, although I was often prompted to increase the number of HDDs as the transfer progressed and all new HDDs had been successfully assimilated (Borg like!). The problem arose when I tried to add a new 3Tb Seagate HDD. It was only recognised as 2Tb and so I attached it to my main PC and formatted it via GPT and got 2.72Tb showing. I then put the HDD in the Win8 machine and in “My Computer” it appeared as 2.72Tb. However, when I sought to add it to the Pool, the applet showed the HDD as being only 1.99Tb. Back in “My Computer” it confirmed the HDD was 2.72. I thought it might just be a minor bug in the applet and clicked to add the HDD to the pool, but having done so, the overall size of the Storage Space only increased by 2Tb, not the 2.72 I expected. I immediately hit the’ remove’ button before anything much could be written to the HDD and removed the HDD from the Pool. Storage Space repaired successfully.
I then rebooted the machine, but now Storage Spaces showed a red error and on looking at the info on the disks within the pool, the 2 previously good 3Tb HDDs are each shown as providing 2.72Tb pool capacity, but there is now a yellow warning triangle:”Warning Disconnected; reconnect drive”. Needless to say, there is no physical disconnection. And the Storage Space no longer appears in “My Computer”. When I look in the “Add drives” page, the two HDDs are shown as 2.72 unformatted and available to be added. However, I have not added them as I believe that doing so will wipe all of the data from them.
What should I do?? Advice most welcome. Thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- win 8.1 Pro x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Home Brew
- CPU
- Intel i7 4700K
- Motherboard
- Asus Z87
- Memory
- 16
- Graphics Card(s)
- Radeon HD 7770
- Sound Card
- Creative Audigy
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell 27" U2713
- Screen Resolution
- 2560 *1440
- Hard Drives
- Samsung SSD 256Gb
Samsung SATA HDD 2Tb
- PSU
- Antec 650w modular
- Case
- Hiper Osiris
- Cooling
- stock
- Keyboard
- MS Digital Pro
- Mouse
- Logitech Performance wireless
- Internet Speed
- 38
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- IE 11
- Antivirus
- Defender