Help with Storage Spaces
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:01 am
On a machine running Windows 8.1 Pro I set up two 3TB drives as a mirror set in storage spaces, plugged into a BlackX Duo esata enclosure.
Ran fine for over a year, then suddenly my machine kept rebooting (blue screen) and gave no specific reason. i finally got the action alert that told me to check storage spaces for a problem.
It gave some odd warning about reduced resiliency but showed both drives as OK. I tried removing one drive and rebooting, and that fixed the machine blue screening. Put that drive back in and then storage spaces had marked it as retired and told me to add another drive. I added a 3TB to the pool and expected a rebuild and it did nothing. Now it thinks it has three drives with one retired, two ok but the new one not being used, and will not let me read from the storage space. If I try to replace the bad drive in manager or powershell I get the warning that there is not enough room for the data which is not correct.
I tried taking the one good drive and putting it on a different machine thinking I could get the data off of it since this was a simple mirror, but that is not the case. The second machine sees the storage space and will not let me do anything with it.
Now when I put all three drives on the original machine the only drive showing good is the empty replacement drive. See the attached image for what it is showing.
I am trying r-studio and scanning the one disk that should still be good, but after several hours it now says it is 100% with 1 minute 33 seconds remaining but it is just sitting there.
I also attached a shot of what R-Studio shows for my disk drives. My concern is that it sees the three drives in the pool, but it does not show any actual storage pool like shown in your documentation?
Ran fine for over a year, then suddenly my machine kept rebooting (blue screen) and gave no specific reason. i finally got the action alert that told me to check storage spaces for a problem.
It gave some odd warning about reduced resiliency but showed both drives as OK. I tried removing one drive and rebooting, and that fixed the machine blue screening. Put that drive back in and then storage spaces had marked it as retired and told me to add another drive. I added a 3TB to the pool and expected a rebuild and it did nothing. Now it thinks it has three drives with one retired, two ok but the new one not being used, and will not let me read from the storage space. If I try to replace the bad drive in manager or powershell I get the warning that there is not enough room for the data which is not correct.
I tried taking the one good drive and putting it on a different machine thinking I could get the data off of it since this was a simple mirror, but that is not the case. The second machine sees the storage space and will not let me do anything with it.
Now when I put all three drives on the original machine the only drive showing good is the empty replacement drive. See the attached image for what it is showing.
I am trying r-studio and scanning the one disk that should still be good, but after several hours it now says it is 100% with 1 minute 33 seconds remaining but it is just sitting there.
I also attached a shot of what R-Studio shows for my disk drives. My concern is that it sees the three drives in the pool, but it does not show any actual storage pool like shown in your documentation?