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    About two weeks ago I replaced my WHS system drive - it had definitely failed. Now I'm getting the message "Volume with name Primary Volume is failing" message. If I go to repair disk it repairs quickly - perhaps 15 - 20 seconds. But soon I get the error again. Now for the odd thing that is probably a clue as to what is going on - the disk name cited in the error messages is "Maxtor 6Y160P0". That was the disk that originally failed and was replaced. It was replaced by a Western Digital drive. Windows device manager properly sees it as a WD drive. Any idea what is going on here?

    Jerry
    Friday, March 6, 2009 6:54 PM

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    Teetime17, could you please submit a bug report on Connect? Include server logs gathered using the WHS toolkit when you do so.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Saturday, March 7, 2009 2:50 PM
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    Teetime17 said:

    About two weeks ago I replaced my WHS system drive - it had definitely failed. Now I'm getting the message "Volume with name Primary Volume is failing" message. If I go to repair disk it repairs quickly - perhaps 15 - 20 seconds. But soon I get the error again. Now for the odd thing that is probably a clue as to what is going on - the disk name cited in the error messages is "Maxtor 6Y160P0". That was the disk that originally failed and was replaced. It was replaced by a Western Digital drive. Windows device manager properly sees it as a WD drive. Any idea what is going on here?

    Jerry


    What steps did you do to replace your system drive?  How are you repairing it?
    Saturday, March 7, 2009 12:08 AM
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    When the system disk failed it was sudden - the PC would not boot. I replaced the drive, booted from the WHS disk, and selected repair. I then reinstalled drivers on the server and all seemed fine for about a week and a half, except that it listed the system drive as being a Maxtor 6Y160P0, when in fact the failed Maxtor 160GB was replaced by a Western Digital 250GB. Both are IDE drives.

    When I get the message that Volume with name Primary Volume is failing I use the WHS repair utility and it seems to go well, reporting that the disk was repaired. I am wondering if WHS is thinking it is failing because somehow it thinks it is a Maxtor 160GB instead of the WD 250GB that it really is.

    Jerry
    Saturday, March 7, 2009 2:09 AM
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    Teetime17, could you please submit a bug report on Connect? Include server logs gathered using the WHS toolkit when you do so.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Saturday, March 7, 2009 2:50 PM
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