I am trying to add a second 1TB drive to my h340. It is a hitachi drive right out of the box, similar to the one that is arleady in the system. I am selecting the option to "use this hard drive to back up fiels taht are stored on your home server" When I do this I get the following error.
"The drive does not seem to have a partition created. Please create a partition and then restart home serer before trying toa dd the drive"
I have looked at all the menu's but can't find a way to do this, and a net search hasn't helped.
If I select the other option, "Add this hard drive to your server storage to increase the storage capacity of your home server" it seems to work fine, it formats the drive and its available.
For whatever reason, Microsoft didn't include a way to partition a drive before adding it as a backup drive. You would have to connect the drive to another computer, or log in to your server using Remote Desktop (unsupported) to partition it. Now that you've added the drive to the storage pool, though, what happens if you remove it from the pool and add it as a backup drive instead?I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
Proposed as answer bykariya21ModeratorMonday, January 25, 2010 1:56 AM
For whatever reason, Microsoft didn't include a way to partition a drive before adding it as a backup drive. You would have to connect the drive to another computer, or log in to your server using Remote Desktop (unsupported) to partition it. Now that you've added the drive to the storage pool, though, what happens if you remove it from the pool and add it as a backup drive instead?I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
Proposed as answer bykariya21ModeratorMonday, January 25, 2010 1:56 AM
