Several days ago, my 2 year old diy home server (built entirely from new parts) started reporting that the sys volume was failing. I immediately shut it down until I could look at it.
The first thing I did was drop in a Spinrite 6 CD and check the two internal WD 1 TB disks (which were new when installed). Spinrite reports everything is great. I then ran the WD diagnostics and it too reports everything is okay. I checked
the event logs and it shows that harddisk2 is having issues. harddisk2 is, I believe, the USB drive I have connected and use for backups of the WHS. I assume sys drive would be harddisk0 and second internal drive would be harddisk1. I can
find no evidence of the sys drive failing.
Next step is to run chkdsk.
I opened disk management to look around and noticed that the drive (hdd0) that contains SYS reports free space that's larger than the capacity of the drive. I assume this has something to do with DE, but maybe this is an indication of corruption in
the file system. Can someone confirm or do I have corruption?
Here are a few of the event log entries:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ftdisk
Event Category: Disk
Event ID: 57
Date: 5/8/2010
Time: 11:52:02 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MATTERHORN
Description:
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 5/8/2010
Time: 11:52:02 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MATTERHORN
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2 during a paging operation.
