Back in February (2011), I had the following Home Server warning:
"Volume with name DE secondary volume is failing. Please try to run Repair for (the name of the disk)."
I ran repair on the disk and no problems reported since. I can open backups and look at files in them; can pull them off.
Yesterday, I attempted a bare metal install to a machine with a dead hard drive. When I get to the actual restore, I get loads of i/o cluster errors on the server. I have done the long format on the new drive checking for bad sectors. I have tried
a number of backups for the machine in question. Same problem on all of them. I have even tried to restore another PC to the new drive. No dice. Four questions and a comment:
- Assuming that there is a problem on the server drives, how do I fix it?
- How do I go on using WHS as it should be used (set it and forget it until it says otherwise) without worrying that it will not work when I need it?
- Does Microsoft acknowledge that there is a problem?
- Does the new version of Home Server (2011) solve these problems?
Comment: This is my first bare metal reinstall. Looks like it is a good thing that I kept up my Acronis license. I am beyond disappointed.
