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I ran "services.msc", find the "StableBit DrivePool Service", right click on it, and select "Properties", Open the "Dependencies" tab. It does list the Virtual Disk service. Then I set startup type to "Automatic (delayed)" I reboot the system. No missing disks this time! Thanks.

I have 64 disks. Every time after system reboot, some of disks were not ready yet before DrivePool would complain and re-measure. And that take a long time to re-scan the full thing. My questions is: 1. Is there a way to disable the automatic "re-measure"? I don't use duplicate, no need for auto-placement and balancer. I just want a simple file pool. 2. If disable not possible, can I delay it for minutes?

1. I have 3 drivepool with 7 disks each. All of them are USB disks. Anytime when any of these 21 disks missing, all three pools will be remeasured. 2. Dont use disk #, use disk <disk path> Where <disk path> Specifies the location of the disk to receive focus, for example, PCIROOT(0)#PCI(0F02)#ATA(C00T00L00). To view the location path of a disk, select it and then type detail disk. Ref: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731355.aspx But make sure to use the same physical port ( USB or SATA )

there is alternate way, and i like this much better. 7. rename "PoolPart.xxx" to something else like "PoolPart.xxx.del" 8. rename "PoolPart.yyy" to "PoolPart.xxx" 9. in Disk Manager make your new drive "offline" ignore that DrivePool complain about disk disconnected... 10. in Disk Manager make your new drive "online" 11. in drivepool, there will be two item for the new drive, one is normal, yet another one says "missing" remove the missing one 12. Done 13. Optional step. delete the empty folder "PoolPart.xxx.del" make sure it is empty before deletion, if not sure, leave it there won't hurt I did not fully test this, if someone have sucess on this or have modified procedure, please share. in my post yesterday, snapraid files were touched. five minutes. today's procedure, ADS files are put back under the original poolpart folder name. one minute thanks

Yesterday, I ran into the same situation like you. Did all that, step 1 to 6 and some more: 7. snapraid --test-force-content-text test-rewrite (to convert the content file to text ) 8. uedit d0\SnapRAID.content (where d0 is the first disk of snapraid array) the content file is big, several G, so you better edit it without temporary file 9. in ultraedit replace all "PoolPart.xxx" with "PoolPart.yyy" and exit 10. snapraid test-rewrite (convert back to binary) 11. snapraid diff (to check parity) 12. if no complain from snapraid, yes, you are DONE. next time, better not, hope this will save u hours