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    I installed WHS on a old poweredge server last week. I pulled the sata raid card out. I connected two 750GB sata drives directly to the mobo and two 1.5 TB hard drives to a pci SATA adapter. I added the drives, 4.2 TB total everything appeared to be okay.

    I tried backing up a machine and it failed over night, so I figured it was a problem with that machine. I moved onto my HTPC and tried running the backup it seemed to be chugging along (800GB of data on this machine). At some point the power went out I am not sure if it was during the backup or not (it says the backup is at 100%) but the backup fails to mount correctly.

    So then the next schedualed backup tries to run and fails.

    Now when I remote onto the machine or hitup the console it seems to be hung for a few minutes, frees up, hangs again etc. I did a backup cleanup and removed all the backups but its still showing 800GB used. The backup server keeps crashing.

    I tried running the check all chkdsk script but I can hardly get that done because the console keeps locking up.

    Is my best bet to remove all hard drives except system phsyically and run chkdsk?

    • Edited by ZachGeek Monday, August 3, 2009 5:43 PM spelling
    Monday, August 3, 2009 4:24 PM

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    Just to follow up I think this problem was due to the SIL 3124 card I had. I put it in a different slot on the mobo and havent had a problem since. I plan on replacing it anyway.

    Thanks for all the replies.


    Friday, August 7, 2009 7:10 PM

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    Quick question - did you use Windows 2003 drivers for all the relevant hardware?

    And yes, personally i would start with just the system drive and see what happens. Then you can add one drive back at a time and try again.

    Andrew
    MVP - Windows Home Server http://usingwindowshomeserver.com
    Monday, August 3, 2009 4:35 PM
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    @Andrew

    I used all of the Windows20003 drivers.  The system was fine for days until I tried to run that first backup. Then the trouble starts. I will pull out the three data drives and re install drivers and then re-add them and see what happens.

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    Zach
    Monday, August 3, 2009 5:39 PM
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    When I came home today on top of the login screen on the console was a file error for C:\fs\I (then a bunch of letters and numbers).  How do I find out which drive is I?

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    Zach
    Monday, August 3, 2009 10:50 PM
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    When I came home today on top of the login screen on the console was a file error for C:\fs\I (then a bunch of letters and numbers).  How do I find out which drive is I?

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    Zach

    Any chance the numbers and letters were {00008086-058D-4C89-AB57-A7F909A47AB4}?  If so, that's your backup database.

    As for finding out which drive is I, since you have some drives that are the same size, you will probably have to power down your server, disconnect a drive, then power it back up.  Then logon to your server desktop and go to C:\fs.  There you will see volume mount points for your drives.  All of them should have a hard drive icon except for the one you disconnected (which will have a folder icon instead).  If the one you disconnected is not I, shut the server down, re-connect that drive, then disconnect the next one and repeat the process.
    Tuesday, August 4, 2009 3:44 AM
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    Just to follow up I think this problem was due to the SIL 3124 card I had. I put it in a different slot on the mobo and havent had a problem since. I plan on replacing it anyway.

    Thanks for all the replies.


    Friday, August 7, 2009 7:10 PM