[Moving to a machine that already has drivepool]

6 hours ago, Shane said:

Note that you don't need to deactivate machine A's license as described in the above linked post (unless you plan to stop using DrivePool on that machine).

Thanks.  I was hoping the second license would pick it up, but I didn't want to go to all of the trouble if it didn't work.

 

[Moving to a machine that already has drivepool]

 

I have two machines that have Stablebit Drivepool.  I would like to move all of the drives from machine A to machine B and retain both the drivepool that is on A and the one on B.

Will just moving the drives suffice?

[Drivepool does not work]

5 hours ago, Shane said:

Hi Larry, if you were able to create a pool then it sounds like your problem is different? What was the message you were getting?

Also if chkdsk is finding problems to fix, you might also want to try Stablebit Scanner or another utility that checks the SMART status of your drives to see if they're in good condition or going bad.

 

I'll give the scanner a shot and see what it comes up with.  If I still have problems with it, I'll start a new topic.

 

Thanks!

 

[Drivepool does not work]

Has this been resolved yet?  I downloaded the trial version last night and I'm having a similar problem.

I tried using a drive that had some data on it, but kept getting this message.  I tried chkdsk on it and it tried to fix it.  One directory seemed to work after that, but the others failed.

I removed it from the pool, reformatted it, and added it back as an new and completely empty drive.  

I created a few top level directories on it.  It seemed to take a very long time to create them.  I was beginning to think the process was hanging.

I started copying files.  The first batch was about 170GB.  These seemed to copy fine.  I checked a few of them and they were all accessible and correct.

I started the next copy which was about 650GB and went to bed.  When I woke up, it. appeared that nothing had been copied and it was displaying the error saying "A device was specified that does not exist".  

I tried copying one of the files from that batch again and was told that the file existed and asked if I wanted to replace it.  When I said YES I again received the message about the device not existing.