I have converted 15 x 2TB disk WHSv1 to Drivepool under Windows 2012 Server R2
All the files were duplciated
Initially all worked fine until one day 4 disks all showed up as damaged
Also some of the disks were not being recognized by the OS at startup
So I physically removed the affected disks and have recovered most of the data on another computer using 4tB drives
In many cases I can find nothing wrong with the disks which makes me think it is something else causing the problem
I believe it is most likely the PSU - I was only using 450w which was probably having trouble in the initial spin up
I have since ordered a replacement 650W PSU
To prove my point I thought I would add one of the damaged disks back to the pool to see if still showed as 'damaged'
Since I was planning to rebuild the pool I created a new directory on the disk and moved the files there
I then deleted the drivepool directories - I know, I should have logically removed the disk from the original pool
When I reloaded this disk to the drivepool machine drivepool created a second drivepool with a single disk
I then tried removing the disk from the drivepool which did not seem to work - no errors!
How can I
1. delete the second drivepool without losing data?
2. better still, recreate my drivepool from scratch?
Also, please confirm a disk is marked as 'damaged' by stablebit scanner if there is one or more bad sectors which may or may not affect a file. Note when I inspected the 'damaged' disk on my second computer SMART showed no errors.
And can I add a disk with data to Drivepool as per the WHS v1 stablebit initial disk load -
1. add the disk to create a logical stablebit Serverfolders directory.
2. stop the drivepool service
3. move the data files into the Serverfolder
4. restart the service