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Hey Shane, thank you for the response. Nothing was used on the drive except for Drivepool. When i removed the pool, i didn't select any of the options which is why I am a bit confused. When I try to open the poolpart folder, it states its corrupted and has 0 files and 0bytes. However I'm currently running a recovery tool on the drive which is finding the files nicely. I'm more just confused why i am having to do this very manual process on this drive.

Hi all, On one of my pools, a drive started failing with 17 bad sectors. Not a big deal typically as I will add a replacement drive to the pool, remove the bad drive, and it will rebalance and move files off of the bad drive and to the new one. This time was different. I added the new drive to the pool, and removed the bad drive except that it didn't transfer the files off of it. The drive still has 5TB of data on it but when I attempt to add it back to the pool, i get an error stating "cannot add same disk to pool twice". The drive isn't listed under any pool drive list. When I assign a drive letter to review the files on the drive, there are two pool.parts, both hidden and empty. Any idea whats going on here? Do I just need to recover the data with another tool?

SOLVED: It looks it like it came from creating the GPT partition inside of a USB enclosure than transferring it to an internal SATA port. No idea how to fix the partition yet without losing data but its not Stablebits issue.

Yes one of the disks in the pool shows up as GPT Protective. When I bought the drive and put it into the USB case, I formatted it at 4TB NTFS and it was working just fine. It was only after I moved it to the 8 bay drive that it started showing this issue. This is frustrating because I've pulled drives numerous times from my server, plopped it into the external USB drive, filled it with content, then put it back into the server without any issues. At that time, I wasn't using Drivepool though.

Hey guys, A few weeks ago Scanner notified me a drive was failing. I got a replacement drive, plugged it in via USB (ran out of SATA ports), and added it to the pool and removed the failing drive from the pool. Drivepool did its thing and all was well. Last week I moved the drive from the external USB case to my 8 bay hot swap tower connected via eSATA to my computer. Did it with the power off, and when it powered on, the disk initialized, thought all was well but I didn't verify the data was still there. Last night I got a notification that a good amount of data was missing. I went in and noticed the HDD I replaced was missing in Drivepool. Went into Disk Management and noticed the drive is now a 2048gb GPT Protective Partition with 1678 unallocated. This is not how I had setup the disk obviously. I can't change any settings on the disk as all options are greyed out. This is the first time this has ever happened. I've added 4 drives over the year to this pool with zero issues. I read this thread: http://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/1774-gpt-protective-partition/?hl=protectiveand their issue was software but I'm not running the same software. These are the only apps that should be accessing the drive. AV: Avast Free Backups: Crashplan and Arq. Arq hasn't touched the pool that the drive was on though. Plex Link to logs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nk8hyxmuilbu44t/Service.rar?dl=0. I didn't turn on file system logging with these logs. Let me know if I need to. Windows 10 Drivepool 2.1.1.561