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My WHS2011 server finally died (boot drive) and I decided it was time for a dedicated NAS., I am moving to a QNAP 4 drive system.
Anyway, after the death of the WHS boot drive I pulled out my 5 x 2 TB drives and 2 x 5 TB WD RED drives. I backed up the 2 TB drives and had no problems reading the "pool part" folders and grabbing the ServerFolder content and backing it up.
The recovery was performed on a Win 10 64 bit machine linked to an external Vantec USB3 hard drive dock which I slotted the 2TB drives in one by one. Data was then stored on a couple of large external LaCie drives.When I tried to do this for the 5 TB drives I got an error (Location is not available) message indicating I couldn't access the drive although it shows up in the list of drives under "My PC"Initially I checked (and changed) the share permissions to Everyone/ALL. No joy.Checking the Drive Manager, the drive partition was listed as RAW. I downloaded a product called EASUS (trial) and it found the missing folders/files...but I don't want to pay $70 to recover the files if I don't have to.One of the things that attracted me to DrivePool was that if I pulled a drive I could just access the files contained on the drive directly.What am I doing wrong? Can anyone suggest a solution?
WHS2011 Died - PoolPart Recovery
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Thank you friend! That was indeed the problem.
I had no idea my HDD dock had a 4 TB capacity limit. Connecting the 5 TB disk directly to a spare SATA in the PC did allow me to read it and it is merrily copying away as we speak!
Thanks again!