The machine is being rebuilt. New components are on the way, including an Intel server MB.
I'm currently looking at my WinHS HDDs on another computer. The data partition on the system drive is, indeed, unformatted; the data partition is reported as healthy, but about 700 gB of data are MIA. Data on the other drives are intact. Surprisingly,
most of the data drives have a small amount of unallocated space, usually a few mB; anyone know if this is normal?
Probable cause of this carnage might be a failure of the system drive, corrupting the data partion in such a way as to unformat it. Without a formatted D drive, WinHS is nearly useless.
Another issue I noticed is that WinHS had barely used any of the storage available on the newest 2 tB HDD added to the pool. For some unknown reason WinHS preferred the older drives, most of which were nearly full, including the system drive's data
partition. Another mystery there.
This is my second server failure involving WinHS. The first was caused by an Antec power supply, which, despite the UPS it was plugged into, malfunctioned and fried every drive, including the FDD and DVD reader. It took several months for the smell
of burning electronics to fade from the room! In that case, the data was backed up to DL DVD's, which were copied to the replacement server one at a time. But, one or two of the DVDs would not fully copy because of errors.
So, if anyone thinks duplicated data on WinHS, or anywhere else, are completely safe, think again. As Bill Clinton might say, the meaning of the word "safe" depends on your definition.
