https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/discover/Covecube Inc. - All ActivityenHi there. As the title says i'm getting this error everytime i try to run dpcmd (with or without flags): Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. From my inspect it seems this error is related to a missing dll dep: StableBit.Cloud.Signal.Client.Library.dll which is not present in the new installs. I've also tried a clean install with the last installer version 2.3.14.1762 but same result.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:47:45 +0000In the SMART settings, there is an option to "Do not query if the disk has spun down". Make sure that's checked. And also, double check the power management settings to verify when it spins down drives. The "Turn off hard drives after" setting. If this is larger than the SMART throttling option, then it could keep the drive active. Eg, you'd want the power management setting to be something like 20 minutes, but the SMART throttling to be 30 minutes.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:02:37 +0000Nope. And given ... everything, if you can get that drive replaced under warranty, it's absolutely worth doing! And yeah, some of these drives will last forever!Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:57:52 +0000I hope this will not be seen as spam :} Destiny decided that a 1 year old drive would crash with zero warnings. (RMA in progress) I'm switching to full 2:1 backups thanks to DrivePool my OLD reliable HDD is still OK by the way. to my fellow data hoarders : your backups must deal with at least the worst case scenario , SMART is nice but not fool proofMon, 28 Sep 2026 11:06:20 +0000Thank you , I will look into that ! And about that warranty thing ... 112074 hours on 2529 power on counts ... that old Western Digital man refuse to quit just yet. O7Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:14:17 +0000Hi! Thanks for the info, I will try drivepool's beta branch. For Scanner, if I set the throttle queries to 30 minutes for example, does that mean that the drive will still wake up every 30 minutes? And is there some sort of condition for "Do not query if the disk has spun down" that I'm not meeting/are there any known issues with this feature at the moment? Thank you!Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:42:19 +0000In the balancing settings, check the balancers. There are two options to handle this. The first is the "Drive Usage Limiter" balancer. Uncheck the "Unduplicated" data option for that drive. Alternatively, you can also set the StableBit Scanner balancer there to "Move un-duplicated data out of drives with SMART warnings. The option for damaged drives should be enabled by default. But if you want the drives with SMART warnings to be evacuated, that's how. You can leave the "move duplicated files out of drives with smart warnings" unchecked, and it will keep duplicated data on the drives. The StableBit Scanner balancer is the better option, IMO, as that this should handle things more automatically. However, if you're having SMART warnings on the drive, I would recommend replacing the drive, if it's still under warranty.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:24:28 +0000Hello, I'll make it short : My pool is made of many different drives, old and new, SATA and USB (I know...) I manually check the SMART health and one of my old-and-reliable HDD popped a 2nd recovered bad cluster (temperature ok, CRC checks ok) Can I keep it in the pool but only for duplicated files (set to 3rd or more dupe maybe) ? if so, how ? Thank you in advance.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:16:34 +0000Makes sense. I'm going to make an attempt to build my own Python+PyQt6 GUI for managing mergerfs.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:38:31 +0000Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:12:12 +0000Ultimately, it's up to Alex, as he's the developer, for what he'd want to do.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:40:11 +0000@Christopher (Drashna) I hope this helps. Here are the very basics of what I did to install and configure mergerfs. Not all steps are there to install services, timers, and other system related functions that I had to troubleshoot to fill in the gaps. Ultimately the IMPORTANT files are attached. This test environment was done with a CachyOS guest in Vmware Workstation Pro 26H1u1 on Windows 11 25H2 host. 2 separate vmdk's for win11 and cachyos, and 3 separate vmdk's for disk1, disk2, and disk3. 5 disks total in a dual boot configuration. mergerfs.txt = basic notes /etc/fuse.conf = sets permissions /etc/fstab = drive mounting and access related configs, set to make the pool-duplicator.sh file work /usr/local/bin/pool-duplicate.sh = script when ran that duplicates using mergerfs.dup, prunes using mergerfs.dedup, ignores single copy directories, logs, and ignores while Vmware is running. This will be required when I do actually install on my primary PC. /etc/systemd/system/pool-duplicate.service = service that fires the script at first boot and shutdown/restart /etc/systemd/system/pool-duplicate.timer = server that fires hourly, unless vmware is running mergerfs.txt pool-duplicate.service pool-duplicate.sh pool-duplicate.timer fuse.conf fstabTue, 15 Sep 2026 20:45:06 +0000I would agree with the setup part. I used mergerfs and mergerfs-tools to build out my working dual boot test environment. After almost 8 hours "conversing" with AI I have a fully working mergerfs script using mergerfs.dup and mergerfs.dedup. The only thing lacking is the GUI front-end to do this for me, and include more specific options like balancing at % or time intervals beyond just setting a daily, hourly, etc schedule. For the test env, I just choose to balance at login and restart/shutdown. I've also integrated the ability to isolate folders AND sub-folders from a global copy count in order to maintain separately identifiable copy counts. Any chance that you could just work through the process of building a GUI with mergerfs as the base, rather than trying to build out what Windows has at the kernel level? Thanks!Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:27:51 +0000In the Scanner settings, in the SMART tab, check the "Throttle queries" option. This will reduce the frequency that SMART queries occur, which can/will wake up the drive and systems. For StableBit DrivePool, the beta version has completely overhauled the bitlocker detection to fix the sleep issue:Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:35:54 +0000The biggest issue is that the linux kernel is completely different from Windows. That is a simple statement, but there is that, and everything that goes with it. Driver support, kernel support, file system support, and more. There are a whole bunch of Linux distros, with different packages, and support and kernel versions. And there is BSD, which is very much different from Linux. So it would have to be completely rewritten from scratch. Build from the ground up. And that's not a small task. That said, I've been using linux a lot more lately, and yeah, there isn't anything quite like the StableBit software. You can get close, but it's a lot of work to do so. Not the dead simple setup of the stableBit software. And it would be nice. That said, the beta version of StableBit Cloud has "Disk Scanner" which is a very scaled back version of StableBit Scanner. https://covecube.download/Changes/CloudDiskScanner/betaTue, 15 Sep 2026 00:31:07 +0000Yeah, you have to deactivate the licenses first. As for the message, it's not likely to change any time soon. The reason for that is that you can have up to 8 licenses attached to an activation ID. But you can also have licenses for one product (eg, StableBit Scanner) but not another (eg, DrivePool). Both to keep it simpler and not having a whole bunch of specific wording. And it also makes it more difficult to try and brute force activation IDs. Also, using StableBit Cloud to manage the licenses make things a lot simpler, as it handles it (semi) automatically.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:22:33 +0000Scrub this. I found the solution. Need to de-acativate old licensees first. I was thrown by the error message saying "Licence not found, contact support" (or words to that effect). Clearly the licence is valid and should be able to be found (on Covecube) so a more helpful message saying"Licence found but in use elsewhere, Consider purchasing a new licence or de-activating the in-use licence first). Better still would be "Licence in use elsewhere, would you like to transfer here?" This would also cover the situations where the old machine is no longer accessible (lost, stolen, bust).Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:35:37 +0000Resurrecting this. I've been a loyal Stablebit Suite user for MANY years now. It's 2026, and... the year of Linux. I NEED a Linux version to share drive pools between dual boot Win11 and Linux. Please, please, please!!!! Can you speak to the difficulties of doing this? If possible, what kind of timeline? If you've already got things rolling, how about an alpha/beta (NDA?) group to help you test. I keep regular backups and complete corruption of my pool would not worry me. I'm ready to make this happen! Thanks!Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:42:35 +0000Hi there Been a long time since I was last here - testament to DriverPool (and scanner and clouddrive) just working without fuss. How do I retrieve my licences (for all three products) to a new machine? I have built a new machine and moved all my drives to the new machine. Drivepool recognised the pool just fine. For now just using the 30 day free trial. I found my original DrivePool activation code (from an email 13 years ago) but that does not work. Nor for the original activations for scanner and clouddrive. I tried to find a login for a portal on Covecube or Stablebit of some kind where this stuff is stored but there appears to be no such thing. cheers EdwardSat, 12 Sep 2026 16:55:33 +0000Hi guys! I'm having the following issue and have spent a couple days trying multiple settings to try and resolve it. Scanner's "Do not query if the disk has spun down" doesn't seem to work for me. Scanner still wakes disks from standby, including disks that Scanner itself put into standby. PC Specs: Scanner 2.6.13.4088 Windows 11 (build 26200) ASUS ROG Strix X570-E, Ryzen 7 5800X 8 spinning disks (all on motherboard SATA): 4x TOSHIBA HDWQ140 (4TB) 1x ST12000NM0007 (excluded from testing because the drive is damaged) 2x ST14000NM001G (Exos X16) 1x ST8000NE0021 Summary With ScannerService running, any disk placed in standby is woken within seconds. With ScannerService stopped and nothing else changed, every disk holds standby indefinitely. "Do not query if the disk has spun down" is enabled. Testing I used Scanner's "Put into Standby" command on all 7 disks, then monitored power state with smartctl (using -n standby). All 7 entered standby. All 7 were then woken by Scanner, 38 to 71 seconds later, in the same serial order every time. The "do not query if spun down" option does not appear to prevent the query I also tested setting windows power plan's hard drive standby to 1 minute, and scanner's throttle queries to 2 minutes, the drives never went on standby at all. These settings didn't seem to affect anything: Per-disk "Do not use Direct I/O when querying S.M.A.R.T." Per-disk "Query the power mode directly from the disk" Advanced Settings: DirectIOOverride off Standby works when scanner service is disabled. ScannerService stopped: all 7 tested disks held standby for at least 150s of me checking. ScannerService running: all 7 woke, at 54s / 62s / 69s / 76s / 91s / 103s / 113s. Other problem services (all fixed now i think) Drivepool - was waking disks instantly until I set BitLocker_PoolPartUnlockDetect to false, found this on one of the forum posts. Fancontrol/LibreHardwareMonitor - was waking the disks every 60 seconds, but fixed when disabling drive monitoring. HWInfo - also waking the disks during monitoring so i disabled it. Scanner Logs: The Scanner service log was filling with "Unable to find the PhysicalDisk performance counter instance for disk '\\.\PHYSICALDRIVEn'" warnings for every disk except the boot drive, retried roughly once per second. Windows PhysicalDisk counters were broken on this system (only the 😄 instance existed). I repaired them with diskperf -Y, lodctr /R and winmgmt /resyncperf. All 12 instances returned and Scanner's Performance / Disk Queue / Disk Active % columns repopulated. This did not change the wake behaviour — the same sweep continued afterwards — but not sure why this happened either. (scanner logs not included because it was 20MB large with the error, looked like the whole log was only filled with that error. Let me know if there's anything useful I can provide that'll help identify any issues! I hope this message wasn't too long and messy haha. Also let me know if this is more appropriate as a support ticket instead! Thank you for taking a look at my issue.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:41:52 +0000If you need both systems running at the same time, for more than 30 days, then you'd want a second license. If not, you can just use the trial period, at worst. But basically: deactivate the current license on the old system disconnect the drives move hardware to new hardware (or swap motherboard/etc, or whatnot) connect the drives to the new system install StableBit DrivePool activate your license And at step 5, it will automatically rebuild the pool with the available disks. The only caveat here is that you might run into permission issues, but this is normal when moving disks to a new system, in general. You may need to reset the permissions, but that depends. But that's really all you need to do.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:45:59 +0000dval14sb: Thanks for that quick and easy answer. I agree supporting by buying another license is the way to go for this great program. The fact that I can just EASILY reinstall in a new machine is Fantastic. Thank you stable-bit!!!!Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:50:08 +0000In my experience you can just bring the disks to the new machine, install DrivePool and all the drives will be read and pooled again. You may need to set/change the drive letters to your liking in Disk Management. You can also move / reuse your license from one computer to another although supporting the developer by buying additional licenses will give you more licenses. It's nice that the developer embedded the config with the drive rather than having to backup configs from some obscure place. That said, I read that there's a settings JSON file somewhere but I have had no need for it since the drives are "plug and play".Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:48:45 +0000Hi. Love this program. Can someone with lots more experience tell me the best way to upgrade a machine currently running drive-pool?? I would like the new machine to use the same data and info I currently have. I would like to simply plug my HD's into new machine and go from there. I am guessing: a) buy another license (most likely) [I know I could just use one for less than 30 days] -I'd support the developers for this!!! b) bring up new machine with old disks?? Am I missing something big Thanks in advanceSat, 29 Aug 2026 23:08:09 +0000Thanks for the reply. I may need to dig into this more to see how it can be prevented or avoided.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:02:32 +0000