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How do I start troubleshooting this? The drive that has 71.9 gb in use hasn't moved in months and all of the others don't seem to be balancing well. I am not using duplication.

I figured this out and wanted to post in case someone runs into it in the future. Back when I was troubleshooting a Storage Spaces issue I saw a bunch of errors in Event Viewer related to the Volume Shadow Copy service so to eliminate that as a potential issue I disabled the service. With this service disabled, The File System scan will look like it is running fine but never mark it as done. No errors or anything. Perhaps developers could do a check to make sure that service is running and let you know if it is not? Anyways, click start, type in services.msc and scroll down to the Volume Shadow Copy service, open it and make sure it is set to start automatically. Once that is done and it starts, the file scan will work as it should. Thanks, Ben

Anyone have any ideas? When I look at Stablebit Scanner it will usually show some drives as scanning file system but it never does.

I have eight drives, all brand new, that I ran a surface scan on when I got them. (I formatted them NTFS, assigned a drive letter and ran surface scans) Once complete I add all eight to a DrivePool. I now have them mounted in a folder instead of with a drive letter. When I check "Mark all file systems good" on one of the disks so that it will kick off a file system scan, it says it is scanning file system, runs for awhile and then says the disk is healthy. But when I look it shows for the file scan "At least one file system has not been checked for problems on this disk" It does this on all 8 disks. Is there a way to get this working right? Is there some other way to tell if the file scan is failing, like a log? It would be nice to see all 3 green checkmark's and know things are good.

Thanks, I already took one drive out of the storage space pool and copied all data to it. (It was a new set up so luckily I could fit it all on one drive) I then blew away storage spaces and switched to Drive Pool. The only issue with DrivePool is how much disk space it takes to duplicate files. You basically lose half of your storage. So if you have eight 10tb drives protected with Storage Spaces, RAID 5 gives you 70tb of useble space vs DrivePool with duplication gives you 40tb of useable space. That extra 30tb is a lot to lose.

It is not seeing a Stablebit Drivepool, it is seeing my Storage Spaces Volume.

I am having a strange issue. My Storage Spaces volume went offline and will now only come online in read-only mode. I ran a scan on the volume and it said there were unreadable sectors. (See attachment) So I went through a week long task of removing a drive from the pool, running a surface scan and adding it back on all 8 drives. All 8 drives came back clean. But afterwards I again ran a scan and the storage spaces has unreadable sectors. What could cause a storage spaces volume to have unreadable sectors when all of the individual drives ran a good surface scan?