My WHS2011 server finally died (boot drive) and I decided it was time for a dedicated NAS., I am moving to a QNAP 4 drive system.
Anyway, after the death of the WHS boot drive I pulled out my 5 x 2 TB drives and 2 x 5 TB WD RED drives. I backed up the 2 TB drives and had no problems reading the "pool part" folders and grabbing the ServerFolder content and backing it up.
The recovery was performed on a Win 10 64 bit machine linked to an external Vantec USB3 hard drive dock which I slotted the 2TB drives in one by one. Data was then stored on a couple of large external LaCie drives.
When I tried to do this for the 5 TB drives I got an error (Location is not available) message indicating I couldn't access the drive although it shows up in the list of drives under "My PC"
Initially I checked (and changed) the share permissions to Everyone/ALL. No joy.
Checking the Drive Manager, the drive partition was listed as RAW. I downloaded a product called EASUS (trial) and it found the missing folders/files...but I don't want to pay $70 to recover the files if I don't have to.
One of the things that attracted me to DrivePool was that if I pulled a drive I could just access the files contained on the drive directly.
What am I doing wrong? Can anyone suggest a solution?