Hi folks, What are the common causes of hard drives failing to add to the shared storage pool? Just
got back an RMA'd WD500AAKS and WHS persistantly fails to add it,
without giving any explanation, just that "The wizard was unable to
create a volume on the hard drive.
I've run WD Diagnostics on the new drive, and it's fine. I've tried formatting it outside of whs, and Olaf's suggestion http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whsfaq/thread/4bd53fe3-2beb-432d-9d7b-52a50c607f8f
Any other ideas on why this might happen, or what can be done about it? Cheers
Setup: HP ML510
Xeon 3065
1GB DDR2-6400
1*Hitachi 250GB (System) 2*WD 500GB GP (AACS) +1 WD5000AAKS to be added
Hi, did you try the diskpart procedure also from within Windows Home Server desktop? If yes, add two commands here after cleaning on the selected disk: create volume simple format fs=ntfs (slow formatting to check, if the disk has issues) Doing this in your server would help to eliminate issues with the WHS hardware (cable, SATA port etc). Try also a different SATA port in the server (if it is a SATA disk), since sometimes ports are only working in RAID mode according to the mainboard manuals and check the jumper settings on the harddrive and the controller settings in the Bios.