Hi. I am currently having a problem with my pool, running on WHS2011. Hope someone can help.
WHS started to complain about 1 of the disks being missing. I checked the dashboard, and sure enough, my 3TB drive was no longer listed. So i RD into the server, and fired up the Windows disk management tool. The drive was there, but listed as 'unknown'. I searched the internet (including, and especially, this site), and the best suggesting was to initialize the disk. Many posts suggested the data would be safe ... so I did that. My 3TB drive reappeared, and the data seems to be ok.
However, I have a bit of a hangover issue, whereby, the data from that drive seems to be included in the pool, and, the system is writing new data to the 3TB drive as if it is in the pool, however, the drive is listed under 'Not in Pool / Drives that can be added to the pool', and I can neither add it, nor remove it from the pool.
I would like to add a new 4TB drive (to replace a different 2TB drive), but would like to fix the problem with the 3TB drive before I do that.
Thanks!