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    I've got a 120GB IDE drive with WHS on it.  It used up about 20GB on install.  After I added a 1.5TB SATA drive and mapped it as a drive letter "S:", my Vista client shows under "Computer" that the mapped drive is red (indicating the drive is almost full), and that 1.5TB of a 91GB drive is free.  What the...???

    I have not copied any data over to the WHS, and no backups have been created yet, as I'm still testing out the machine (I'm new to networking).  Why would it say that the mapped S: drive is 91GB, but that 1.5TB is free. And why does Vista show the red ribbon under the drive letter, if the WHS has no data on it yet (aside from WHS install itself)???  It should be green.

     

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    Saturday, July 3, 2010 12:28 AM

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    Hi,

    this issue has been created, as the WHS team tried to work around the behavior of Vista to see only the free space on the D: drive of the server and rejecting to copy to a share, if the selected amount of files was larger. The cosmetic part of it may be annoying, but is not seen, if you access the shares directly (not locally on the server, not mapping network drives). It has been reported several month ago (just after the patch, which brought the issue up) and since it is not fixed now, I would assume, we don't see a fix for this any more (possible reason could be, that the code base of Windows Server 2003 would have to be altered, which is not in the hands of the WHS team).

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf

    • Marked as answer by ReptileKen Saturday, July 3, 2010 1:48 PM
    Saturday, July 3, 2010 11:38 AM
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    This is normal behavior; there's nothing wrong with your server. The 91 GB is the space remaining on the system drive after the system partition was created, and the 1.5 TB is the total size of your storage pool. It's a cosmetic issue, for the most part, though there are some programs that will balk.

    If you want to use duplication, by the way, you should add another 1.5 TB drive.

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Saturday, July 3, 2010 2:50 AM
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    Hi Ken,

    Thanks for your response.

    Are you aware if MS is planning to fix that little error?  If not, who can I contact to let them know of my problem with it.

    You work here is appreciated, Ken

    Saturday, July 3, 2010 7:06 AM
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    Hi,

    this issue has been created, as the WHS team tried to work around the behavior of Vista to see only the free space on the D: drive of the server and rejecting to copy to a share, if the selected amount of files was larger. The cosmetic part of it may be annoying, but is not seen, if you access the shares directly (not locally on the server, not mapping network drives). It has been reported several month ago (just after the patch, which brought the issue up) and since it is not fixed now, I would assume, we don't see a fix for this any more (possible reason could be, that the code base of Windows Server 2003 would have to be altered, which is not in the hands of the WHS team).

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf

    • Marked as answer by ReptileKen Saturday, July 3, 2010 1:48 PM
    Saturday, July 3, 2010 11:38 AM
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