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    My DIY WHS finally crapped out after almost 3 years. I'm fairly certain the CPU is dead, and there's no problems with the hard drives. Rather than rebuilding my box, I plan on buying an HP EX495 and adding my 3 1TB hard drives.

    Is it possible to have a new server recognize and rebuild the storage pool based on my existing drives? If so, what's the process? If not what are my options for migrating data from a dead system?

    Monday, August 9, 2010 4:52 PM

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    Yes, in general it's possible to reintegrate a storage pool. You will need to use the server recovery process, which HP details in their documentation. However, I don't know what will happen in this particular case, since you're going from a non-HP storage pool to an HP MediaSmart Server. HP has some additions to the product which store data in the storage pool, and your current disks have neither the data nor the places to put it. Best will probably be to connect your disks one by one to a computer on your network and copy from <driveletter>:\DE\Shares\<sharename> to the corresponding share on your new server. After you copy everything, add the disk to your new server.

    Note: you should never attempt to connect a foreign Windows Home Server system disk to a functional Windows Home Server installation. It will almost certainly cause issues. Instead, after you've copied data from that disk to the storage pool, use diskpart or some other tool to clean all partitions off the disk.

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Monday, August 9, 2010 5:44 PM
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    Yes, in general it's possible to reintegrate a storage pool. You will need to use the server recovery process, which HP details in their documentation. However, I don't know what will happen in this particular case, since you're going from a non-HP storage pool to an HP MediaSmart Server. HP has some additions to the product which store data in the storage pool, and your current disks have neither the data nor the places to put it. Best will probably be to connect your disks one by one to a computer on your network and copy from <driveletter>:\DE\Shares\<sharename> to the corresponding share on your new server. After you copy everything, add the disk to your new server.

    Note: you should never attempt to connect a foreign Windows Home Server system disk to a functional Windows Home Server installation. It will almost certainly cause issues. Instead, after you've copied data from that disk to the storage pool, use diskpart or some other tool to clean all partitions off the disk.

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Monday, August 9, 2010 5:44 PM
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    I've read elsewhere that files should only be accessed through the network share and shouldn't be accessed through the ..\DE\Shares\. In this scenario, are there any potential issues I should be aware of when accessing the files directly from the file system?
    Monday, August 9, 2010 6:01 PM
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    I've read elsewhere that files should only be accessed through the network share and shouldn't be accessed through the ..\DE\Shares\. In this scenario, are there any potential issues I should be aware of when accessing the files directly from the file system?
    No, because in this case you are copying from \DE\shares (from a client computer to a network share).  What you don't want to do is copy anything to \DE\shares (by logging into the server desktop).
    Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:36 AM
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